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FZFabian Zeindl <fabian.zeindl@gmail.com>
Date
May 31, 2011, 19:12 UTC
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<7760D048-5534-42A2-82D2-D5BB9C75739C@gmail.com>
Hi,
 i use a GUI for git and discovered that it showed me a rename in a commit where i actually replaced a file.
So i looked at the commit via git show, and found the following:
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/swt-3.7M7-win32.jar differ
diff --git a/lib/swt-3.7M7-win64.jar b/lib/swt-3.7M7-win64.jar

Where is the /dev/null coming from?

Regards
Fabian Zeindl
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