Re: git confused by rename

On 10/10/08 Junio C Hamano said:

The above observation of mine is correct, but I forgot that "git status"
(and the comment in the commit template from "git commit") is generated
internally with "diff-index -B -M".  So if

 (0) had A but not B in the HEAD commit;
 (1) you created B that is very similar to the original A; and
 (2) you modified A beyond recognition;

Which, FTR, is what I did. 

I copied A -> B for its boilerplate, and then hacked them both up, although B
consisted mostly of content that I removed from A (a refactoring exercise).

This however makes me wonder if "diff-index -B -M" should say B is copied
(instead of being renamed) from A and A is modified in such a case.  I do
not think we would want to make such a change without thinking things,
through.

Gotcha. Indeed though, I did cp A -> B, and if A still exists then it
obviously was not renamed.

Thanks,
Mike
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