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Re: renaming question

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FWFlorian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date
Aug 19, 2007, 18:16 UTC
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* 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.

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