From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:35:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Message-ID: <20071019033500.GB10697@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7E3647F4-E61C-4FBE-9AA7-81CDBE324308@MIT.EDU>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:26:32PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:

>>> touch the working tree".  Here we want to touch the working tree
>>> in the sense of moving the file.  So --cached is not the correct
>>> option name.
>>
>> Doesn't "mv" do that?
>
> We only want to move it, not also add its dirty contents.

Right, I mean regular "mv", not "git-mv". The only thing that doesn't
accomplish is moving the "from" entry in the index to the "to" entry
(but I'm not sure that's such a good idea).  Perhaps I've lost sight of
your original goal. Can you state more succintly what you are trying to
accomplish?

-Peff