Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 11:06 UTC
Message-ID: <1187089619.12828.183.camel@chaos>
In-Reply-To: <20070814105056.GA14536@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:50 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

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> > Err.
> >
> > git-mv A B
> > git commit
> > edit B
> > git commit
> > git blame B <- shows the full history of A & B
> >
> > IMHO that's why we have git-mv
> 
> Try replacing
> 
>   $ git-mv A B
> 
> with
> 
>   $ mv A B
>   $ git rm A
>   $ git add B
> 
> The result is exactly the same. git-mv is just a convenience.

Fair enough, but it still does not solve my initial problem of keeping the history of B (former A) intact, while creating a new A which is necessary to compile the tree, simply because I can not change #include <A> to #include <B> for various reasons.

	tglx