From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:40:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Message-ID: <93BF5798-F1C3-48EE-8233-A0F111BF8138@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20071019033500.GB10697@coredump.intra.peff.net>


On 18 Oct 2007, at 11:35:00 PM, Jeff King wrote:

> Right, I mean regular "mv", not "git-mv". The only thing that doesn't
> accomplish is moving the "from" entry in the index to the "to" entry
> (but I'm not sure that's such a good idea).  Perhaps I've lost  
> sight of
> your original goal. Can you state more succintly what you are  
> trying to
> accomplish?

I think you're right.

Anyway, succinctly:

> What you want to happen is the following:
> 	
> 	git show HEAD:A.txt > path/B.txt
> 	git add path/B.txt
> 	mv A.txt B.txt
> 	git rm A.txt

Better:

>  	mv A.txt path/B.txt
> 	Point the index entry for A.txt to path/B.txt

I hope that's right.