From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:09:45 GMT
Subject: Re: possible 'git cp'/how does git detect copies
Message-ID: <20080627130945.GN29404@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080627130006.GC17898@artemis.madism.org>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:00:06PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
>   If you really need it, you can and an alias alias.cp=!cp and be done
> with it ;P

Actually that's not that easy. git-mv moves untracked files and adds
tracked files to the index as well. So such a git-cp would have to copy
tracked and untracked files, and add tracked files to the index.

I did it in the past:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72388/focus=73347

but then we agreed about it's better not encouraging copy-and-paste.