Re: A git-mv question
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ron Garret wrote:
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> If I do a git-mv *and* edit the file all in one commit, does that get
> recorded in a way that allows git to track the change through the
> changed file name? In other words, if I do just a git-mv (without
> changing the file) git can track that by observing that two differently
> named objects in two different commit trees contain the same blob. But
> if the file is edited then the blobs will be different. Is git smart
> enough to distinguish a git-mv and edit from, say, the equivalent git-rm
> and git-add? If so, how does it do it?
Please see:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitdiffcore.html
Nicolas