Sometimes I need to rename and change a file in one commit. One
example would be a file foo.h that begins with
#ifndef FOO_H
#define FOO_H
which should be renamed bar.h and have the FOO_H changed to BAR_H.
In subversion I would
svn mv foo.h bar.h; vi bar.h; svn ci
and then a
svn log bar.h
also shows the history of that file when it was named foo.h.
This does not work in git. After committing,
git mv foo.h bar.h; vi bar.h; git commit -a
the command
git log --follow bar.h
shows only the history of the file when it was named bar.h, but not
its life as foo.h.
The only workaround I found was to do the rename and the change in two
separate commits, so that git sees the same name and the same SHA hash
which allows it to follow the files' history. This can be a problem
when the intermediate version with either only the change or only the
rename doesn't compile correctly.
Is there a better way to do this in git?
A similar problem is splitting a file into two files. With subversion
I'd do
printf "void foo() {}\nint main() { foo(); }\n" > prog.c
svn add prog.c; svn ci -m "Add prog.c"
Then I would split
svn cp prog.c foo.c; svn cp prog.c main.c; svn rm prog.c
printf "2d\nwq\n" | ed foo.c; printf "1d\nwq\n" | ed main.c
svn ci -m "Split prog.c"; svn up
and I get
$ svn log -v
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r2 | urs | 2017-04-17 10:03:06 +0200 (Mon, 17 Apr 2017) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /foo.c (from /prog.c:1)
A /main.c (from /prog.c:1)
D /prog.c
Split prog.c
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r1 | urs | 2017-04-17 10:02:51 +0200 (Mon, 17 Apr 2017) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /prog.c
Add prog.c
------------------------------------------------------------------------
And I can also see this when I run svn log on one of both files.
How could I do this in git?
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