From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:49:16 GMT
Subject: Re: renaming question
Message-ID: <85odh3qp8j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <03bd01c7e295$976a2970$0600a8c0@ze4427wm>

"Aaron Gray" <angray@beeb.net> writes:

>> "Aaron Gray" <angray@beeb.net> writes:
>>>
>>> Would the following do the trick ?
>>>
>>>    git add test.c
>>>    git commit
>>>
>>>    rename test.c test.cpp *
>>>    vi test.cpp
>>>
>>>    git rm test.c
>>>    git add test.cpp
>>>    git commit -M
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> There is no such thing as "git commit -M".  git does not keep track
>> of renames.  It generates the rename info on the fly when you ask
>> it for patches, log stats, blame annotations or similar.
>
> Could you elaborate maybe with a rough example for generating
> patches.

Uh, is that a trick question?

git-format-patch -M

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