Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update

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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:33 +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2007-08-14 10:38:01 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > is there a built in way to handle the following situation:
> >
> > file A is renamed to B
> > file A is created again and new content is added.
> >
> > I found only two ways to do that, which both suck:
> >
> > 1)
> >       git-mv A B
> >       git-add A
> >       git commit
> >
> >       results in a copy A to B and lost history of B
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "lost history of B"? You do know that git
> doesn't record renames? So you could just as well do

Err.

git-mv A B
git commit
edit B
git commit
git blame B <- shows the full history of A & B

IMHO that's why we have git-mv

	tglx



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