Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20070814093357.GA14010@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1187080681.12828.174.camel@chaos>

On 2007-08-14 10:38:01 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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> is there a built in way to handle the following situation:
>
> file A is renamed to B
> file A is created again and new content is added.
>
> I found only two ways to do that, which both suck:
>
> 1)
>       git-mv A B
>       git-add A
>       git commit
>
>       results in a copy A to B and lost history of B

What exactly do you mean by "lost history of B"? You do know that git doesn't record renames? So you could just as well do

  $ mv A B
  $ create a new A
  $ git add A B
  $ git commit

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> 2)
>       git-mv A B
>       git commit
>       git-add A
>       git commit
>
>       preserves the history of B, but breaks bisection because A is
>       needed to compile

Yes. I wouldn't recommend this option for that reason.

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