From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 02:14:24 GMT
Subject: Re: How to fork a file (git cp ?)
Message-ID: <7v1v0ddhbz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DC20461.4090703@aldan.algebra.com>

"Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> writes:

> 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."

I think that is what exactly "blame -C -C" gives you.