From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:16:02 GMT
Subject: Re: renaming question
Message-ID: <87vebbo0f1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <03a701c7e28a$87914fc0$0600a8c0@ze4427wm>

* 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.