Re: What about git cp ?

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

"Francis Moreau" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Hello,

I'm looking for a something which could be done by a git-cp
command.

I'd like to copy a file with its history to a new file but want to
keep the old one,

Git doesn't _record_ copies and renames, but detects them
after-the-fact (either by default, or explicitly like "git blame -C"
or so).

So, just "cp + git add" and you're done. That's what a "git cp"
command would do if it existed.

You can just put git-cp shell script doing this in PATH (or
GIT_EXEC_PATH if they are different) for "git cp" to just work.
Or you can write builtin-cp.c, following builtin-mv.c

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