From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:21:58 GMT
Subject: Re: A git-mv question
Message-ID: <ron1-C9CA44.23215801022010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002011927490.1681@xanadu.home>

In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002011927490.1681@xanadu.home>,
 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ron Garret wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 

Thanks!  A little light reading :-)

rg