Re: renaming question

>>* Aaron Gray:
>>
>>> I have a very large C source project that I am converting from C to C++.
>>>
>>> Is it posssible to track changes with renamed files in GIT ?
>>
>> You don't need to rename the files if you compile them using g++.  If
>> you still want to rename them, most history-related GIT commands
>> accept an -M switch which enables rename ("move") detection.
>
> For sanity they have to be renamed.
>
> I am a bit of a GIT newbie. With the -M switch what would be the
> proceedure with a single file conversion such as with test.c and
> test.cpp ?
>
> 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,