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Re: How to fork a file (git cp ?)

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MTMikhail T. <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Date
May 5, 2011, 01:58 UTC
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On 04.05.2011 17:02, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Well, if you come from the mindset that a "file" has an identity (hence
> there is a distinction between "This file used to be called A and at one
> point was renamed to B which is the name we see today" and "Some time ago
> somebody created a file B with the same contents as A and then removed A
> at the same time"), "copy" would not make much sense.  What identity does
> a new file B gets when you create it by copying from A?

What I want is to signify something like: "This code was obtained from that in file A."

"copy" -- of an individual file -- makes just as much sense as "move" (rename).

    -mi
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  6. Øyvind A. HolmMay 4, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2011
  8. Mikhail T.May 5, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  10. Piotr KrukowieckiMay 5, 2011
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  18. Pete HarlanMay 8, 2011
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