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Re: Rename edge case...

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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
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Nov 9, 2012, 10:25 UTC
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On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote: [snip]

> When merging two branches, git only looks at the tips. It doesn't inspect
> their histories to see how the files were moved around. So i doesn't matter
> whether you rename the files in a single commit or multiple commits. The
> resulting tree is always the same.

I guess I figured that when I saw the final result, but didn't know if there was a way to coax Git into doing a better job here. I guess not though. At least it's a situation that doesn't come up often.

-John
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