On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:26:32PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote: >>> touch the working tree". Here we want to touch the working tree >>> in the sense of moving the file. So --cached is not the correct >>> option name. >> >> Doesn't "mv" do that? > > We only want to move it, not also add its dirty contents. Right, I mean regular "mv", not "git-mv". The only thing that doesn't accomplish is moving the "from" entry in the index to the "to" entry (but I'm not sure that's such a good idea). Perhaps I've lost sight of your original goal. Can you state more succintly what you are trying to accomplish? -Peff - 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