"Bradley M. Kuhn" <bk...@ebb.org> writes: > The new repository contains everything that the current > Savannah one does, but I put much more effort into making > commits fine-grained, rather than merely importing the public > releases blindly. (For example, I did 'git mv' where it was > obvious a move occurred, so that changes in file movements were > properly tracked historically).
Git doesn't track file movement in any way, it just tracks file content. It is "git diff" and other commands for viewing history that figure out that a file moved, based on the change that occurred. It is a waste of time to use "git mv" if some other way is easier. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org
