On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:53:34PM +0000, Michael Witten wrote: > This is because git fundamentally tracks content, and paths are just > one kind of content associated with another blob of content. > Consequently, git really knows next to nothing about directories, so > it's not too surprising that git doesn't bother finding such a > DIRECTORY rename anyway (at most, git would detect a FILE rename, and > your FILE `dir1/file2' has nothing to do with, say, the FILE > `dir1/file1' being renamed `dir2/file1'). > > Still, some command line switches could be useful to help the user > express to git what should be going on in a case such as yours. FYI, Yann Dirson was working on some patches to detect directory renames, but we haven't heard anything for a while. The last version I could find was: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/163328 -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html