Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 10:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20070814105056.GA14536@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1187086600.12828.177.camel@chaos>

On 2007-08-14 12:16:40 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:33 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> 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.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle