J Junio C Hamano #
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Kevin Daudt [off-list ref] writes:
Note that git does not store that files are renamed. So a remove + add is the same as a rename in git. Only git status shows it when you for example use git mv directly, but this information is lost on commit.
Are you sure about the last sentence? I do not recall teaching
anything special to "git status". If "git status" says A was
created by renaming B, and if you committed that state was-is, "git
show" on the result commit _should_ say the same thing, I would
think.
Instead of storing it get relies on detecting what (parts of ) files got renamed, copied etc.
That statement I belieave is true.