Re: What about git cp ?

From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Date: Feb 3, 2008, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <87hcgplvjh.dlv@maison.homelinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0802031023y2ed7a5aax6d3c404b08757a4d@mail.gmail.com>

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a something which could be done by a git-cp command.
>
> I'd like to copy a file with its history to a new  file but want to
> keep the old one,

Git don't attach history to a file, but to a content. Just do a: cp foo bar git add bar git commit -m "copying foo to bar"

And it will be done, and when needed, git will be able to know that this was a copy.

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Rémi Vanicat