On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stefan Moch <stefanmoch@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> * Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> [2017-12-15T17:31:30-0800]: >>> This sounds like a reasonable thing to add. See builtin/mv.c for how >>> "git mv" works if you're looking for inspiration. >>> >>> cmd_mv in that file looks rather long, so I'd also be happy if someone >>> interested refactors to break it into multiple self-contained pieces >>> for easier reading (git mostly follows >>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#functions). >> >> I looked at builtin/mv.c and have a rough idea how to split it >> up to support both mv and cp commands. >> >> But first I noticed and removed a redundant check in cmd_mv, >> also added a test case to check if mv --dry-run does not move >> the file. > > I guess these two patches went unnoticed when posted at the end of > last year. Reading them again, I think they are good changes. > > As a no-op clean-up of a127331c ("mv: allow moving nested > submodules", 2016-04-19), the attached would also make sense, I > would think. > > Thanks. > > builtin/mv.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c > index 9662804d23..9cb07990fd 100644 > --- a/builtin/mv.c > +++ b/builtin/mv.c > @@ -266,10 +266,11 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > const char *src = source[i], *dst = destination[i]; > enum update_mode mode = modes[i]; > int pos; > - if (show_only || verbose) > - printf(_("Renaming %s to %s\n"), src, dst); > - if (show_only) > + if (show_only) { > + if (verbose) > + printf(_("Renaming %s to %s\n"), src, dst); > continue; > + } This is actually changing behavior to if (show_only && verbose) print(...) if show_only continue The second part is already there as is, only the printing behavior actually changes. So I might be missing the obvious here for the claim of no-op? Looking up further we have (line 177): if (show_only) printf(_("Checking rename of '%s' to '%s'\n"), src, dst); which prints regardless of verbosity.