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Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2007, 11:18 UTC
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<20070814111828.GA15399@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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On 2007-08-14 13:06:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:50 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > 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.

Have you tried running blame with -C, or -C -C? That will make it try harder to identify lines originating from other files.

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