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Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad?
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad? |
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Thu, 09 Dec 2021 07:02:09 +0100 |
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Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> The gist of it is:
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> * From the original point, start multiple branches, one for each part.
> * On each branch:
> * Rename the original file to the file name of the target part, and
> commit just this renaming.
> * Then, remove the lines that do not belong to this part, and also commit.
> * Finally, do an octopus merge on all the branches together.
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> This way, each part traces its ancestry to the original file through a
> rename-only commit.
Couldn't the same effect be achieved in a simpler manner by copying the
original file N times in one commit and then stripping the copies and
original down to what they should eventually become? (AFAIK, git has no
problem detecting literal copies.)
Bye,
Tassilo
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