From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 01:47:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: Git rename does not work if folder naming was changed from lower to upper case on OSX
Message-ID: <xmqqshkpic0e.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170429201813.GA19256@alpha.vpn.ikke.info>

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.