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Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 19, 2007, 03:58 UTC
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<20071019035838.GB18717@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<C5184350-51A7-46B4-B0C9-E32F79214546@MIT.EDU>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:53:05PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:
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>>   3. You don't want to commit your changes, so you git-mv in the index
>>      only without involving your dirty working tree file.
> That's exactly what the original poster wanted.
>
> It's not unreasonable.

I guess. I really think git-stash is your friend here. But you can still do step (3) with git-update-index (I'll leave the exact details as an exercise for the reader).

-Peff
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