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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Proposed git mv behavioral change
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:58:38 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:53:05PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:

>>   3. You don't want to commit your changes, so you git-mv in the index
>>      only without involving your dirty working tree file.
> That's exactly what the original poster wanted.
>
> It's not unreasonable.

I guess. I really think git-stash is your friend here. But you can still
do step (3) with git-update-index (I'll leave the exact details as an
exercise for the reader).

-Peff