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Re: Bug: Git rename does not work if folder naming was changed from lower to upper case on OSX

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 1, 2017, 01:47 UTC
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Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> writes:
> Note that git does not store that files are renamed. So a remove + add
> is the same as a rename in git. Only git status shows it when you for
> example use git mv directly, but this information is lost on commit.

Are you sure about the last sentence? I do not recall teaching anything special to "git status". If "git status" says A was created by renaming B, and if you committed that state was-is, "git show" on the result commit _should_ say the same thing, I would think.

> Instead of storing it get relies on detecting what (parts of ) files got
> renamed, copied etc.
That statement I belieave is true.
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  1. Robert EiseleApr 29, 2017
  2. Torsten BögershausenApr 29, 2017
  3. Kevin DaudtApr 29, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2017
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