From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:26:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Message-ID: <7E3647F4-E61C-4FBE-9AA7-81CDBE324308@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20071019032407.GA10622@coredump.intra.peff.net>


On 18 Oct 2007, at 11:24:07 PM, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:19:59PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> touch the working tree".  Here we want to touch the working tree
>> in the sense of moving the file.  So --cached is not the correct
>> option name.
>
> Doesn't "mv" do that?

We only want to move it, not also add its dirty contents.