[OT?] Moving files with git, without losing history.

[Charles Plessy-12]

Dear Mentors,

Although it is not really a Debian question, it is for a package that I try to
convert to git…

Despite it is written everywhere that Git automagically understands renames, if
I move a file and do ‘git log’ on it, I do not see its history anymore. In
contrary to what is documented on the interweb, adding --follow or setting
diff.renames to true never worked in my hands.

Any suggestion ?

Have a nice day,

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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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[Paul Wise-3]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy@...> wrote:

> Although it is not really a Debian question, it is for a package that I try to
> convert to git…

You're probably much better off asking about this on #git on Freenode
or the mailing list:

git@...
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git

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[Luca Bruno-7]

Charles Plessy scrisse:

> Despite it is written everywhere that Git automagically understands
> renames, if I move a file and do ‘git log’ on it, I do not see its
> history anymore. In contrary to what is documented on the interweb,
> adding --follow or setting diff.renames to true never worked in my
> hands.
> Any suggestion ?

Try with options -M, -C or --diff-filter=<mode> which detect copies and
renames (see `git log --help`).

Ciao, Luca

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