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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: rm and mv commands: should I use them?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:06:42 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 06:05:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Actually, I think I found a bug.
> 
> 	$ git reset --hard
> 	$ echo >>Makefile
>         $ git diff --numstat
>         1	0	Makefile
>         $ git mv Makefile makefile
>         $ git diff
>         $ git diff --cached -M --numstat
>         1	0	Makefile => makefile
> 
> "git mv" should not have staged the change.  It should have
> moved the index entry from Makefile to makefile and moved the
> work tree files.

I thought there was some discussion about this a few months ago,
concerning what exactly it should do, and that was how we arrived at the
current behavior. However, I can't seem to find it now. Maybe I dreamed
it.

-Peff