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Subject: Re: renaming question
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>* 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.

For sanity they have to be renamed.

I am a bit of a GIT newbie. With the -M switch what would be the proceedure 
with a single file conversion such as with test.c and test.cpp ?

Would the following do the trick ?

    git add test.c
    git commit

    rename test.c test.cpp *
    vi test.cpp

    git rm test.c
    git add test.cpp
    git commit -M

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron