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Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad?


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:35:18 +0700

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 13:06, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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.)

Indeed, I tried this and it works for me, as long as the first commit
is only literal copies. Maybe Git’s ancestry detection through copies
was not as advanced in the unspecified times when Raymond invented his
technique.



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