"Aaron Gray" <angray@xxxxxxxx> writes:
* Aaron Gray:
I have a very large C source project that I am converting from C to
C++.
Is it posssible to track changes with renamed files in GIT ?
You don't need to rename the files if you compile them using g++. If
you still want to rename them, most history-related GIT commands
accept an -M switch which enables rename ("move") detection.
For sanity they have to be renamed.
I am a bit of a GIT newbie. With the -M switch what would be the
proceedure with a single file conversion such as with test.c and
test.cpp ?
Would the following do the trick ?
git add test.c
git commit
rename test.c test.cpp *
vi test.cpp
git rm test.c
git add test.cpp
git commit -M
Many thanks in advance,
There is no such thing as "git commit -M". git does not keep track of
renames. It generates the rename info on the fly when you ask it for
patches, log stats, blame annotations or similar.
Could you elaborate maybe with a rough example for generating patches.
Aaron
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