[bug?] renamed file loses changes in merge.

I'm unsure it is a bug or a misuse on my part, but:

Situation:

There are two distinct repositories (upstream & local), local is a fork of upstream (at tag "v3.7"). Both repositories were modified (upstream has delivered new version with tag "v3.7.1"). I need to incorporate local changes into the new upstream release.

I did the following:

git clone upstream git checkout v3.7.1 -b v3.7.1_local (I do not want anything later than that) git remote add local ../local/.git git fetch local git merge local/current ... resolve conflicts ... git ad --all git commit -m ...

At this point I discovered that one specific file: was renamed in upstream was changed in local

What I have on my workspace is the *renamed* file *without* the modifications from local.

Is this the normal behavior? If so I fail to understand the rationale behind it; I would expect git to apply changes to the renamed file.

Thanks in Advance Mauro