Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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> On 18 Oct 2007, at 11:47:32 AM, lmage11@twcny.rr.com wrote:
>
> >I don't know exactly how git manages the index
> >internally, but a
> >shortcut for this would be to simply rename the index entry in place.
>
> Seems like the shortcut would lose the history and confuse git.
No. It wouldn't. The index has no knowledge of history of anything.
For good reason. Its strictly a mapping of file name to some basic
stat information (used to determine if the file has been modified
by the user or not) and the SHA-1 of the staged blob. That's it.
No history. The shortcut the original poster was asking about
wouldn't confuse Git one bit.
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Shawn.
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>