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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: bisect / history preserving on rename + update
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:06:59 +0200
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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:50 +0200, Karl Hasselstr=C3=B6m wrote:
> > Err.
> >
> > git-mv A B
> > git commit
> > edit B
> > git commit
> > git blame B <- shows the full history of A & B
> >
> > IMHO that's why we have git-mv
>=20
> Try replacing
>=20
>   $ git-mv A B
>=20
> with
>=20
>   $ mv A B
>   $ git rm A
>   $ git add B
>=20
> The result is exactly the same. git-mv is just a convenience.

=46air enough, but it still does not solve my initial problem of keepin=
g
the history of B (former A) intact, while creating a new A which is
necessary to compile the tree, simply because I can not change #include
<A> to #include <B> for various reasons.

	tglx