From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:47:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Message-ID: <D2EAAC6D-567D-454A-AECA-C90FA2C369AE@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c594999b2337.2337c594999b@nyroc.rr.com>


On 18 Oct 2007, at 11:47:32 AM, lmage11@twcny.rr.com wrote:

> I don't know exactly how git manages the index
> internally, but a
> shortcut for this would be to simply rename the index entry in place.

Seems like the shortcut would lose the history and confuse git.

Anyway,

Let's say you have a file, A.txt, with contents:

	A

You edit this file so that it has contents:
	
	A_dirty

You're saying that, currently, 'git-mv A.txt path/B.txt'
does this:
	
	mv A.txt path/B.txt
	git add path/B.txt
	git rm  A.txt

So that A.txt is indeed moved to path/B.txt, but now
A_dirty has been added to the index.

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

Is this correct?

Michael Witten