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Re: The original file that was split in 2 other files, is there a way in git to see what went where?

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Jan 23, 2018, 16:32 UTC
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Aleksey Bykov <aleksey.bykov@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is there an easy way to see:
>
> 1. what came to b from a?
> 2 .what came to c from a?
> 3. all extra changes apart from just moving stuff?

One way to do this is to use "--color-moved" - it will tell you what in b.txt and c.txt was moved and what wasn't (although it won't tell you from where). This was introduced recently, I think in 2.15.

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