From: Mikhail T. <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 01:58:57 GMT
Subject: Re: How to fork a file (git cp ?)
Message-ID: <4DC20461.4090703@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <7viptqdvrf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 04.05.2011 17:02, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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