From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: renaming question Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:16:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87vebbo0f1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <03a701c7e28a$87914fc0$0600a8c0@ze4427wm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 19 20:16:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMpKC-00086X-2M for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:16:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752527AbXHSSQG (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:16:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753553AbXHSSQF (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:16:05 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:4286 "EHLO mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752527AbXHSSQF (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:16:05 -0400 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1IMpJj-0003WA-6H for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:16:03 +0200 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IMpJi-0003Ka-5v for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:16:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <03a701c7e28a$87914fc0$0600a8c0@ze4427wm> (Aaron Gray's message of "Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:58:20 +0100") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Aaron Gray: > I have a very large C source project that I am converting from C to C++. > > Is it posssible to track changes with renamed files in GIT ? You don't need to rename the files if you compile them using g++. If you still want to rename them, most history-related GIT commands accept an -M switch which enables rename ("move") detection.