Re: What about git cp ?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2008, 19:07 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <vpq63x5swsj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

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> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for a something which could be done by a git-cp
> > command.
> >
> > I'd like to copy a file with its history to a new file but want to
> > keep the old one,
> 
> Git doesn't _record_ copies and renames, but detects them
> after-the-fact (either by default, or explicitly like "git blame -C"
> or so).
> 
> So, just "cp + git add" and you're done. That's what a "git cp"
> command would do if it existed.

You can just put git-cp shell script doing this in PATH (or GIT_EXEC_PATH if they are different) for "git cp" to just work. Or you can write builtin-cp.c, following builtin-mv.c

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Jakub Narebski
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