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 - 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