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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Cc: Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rename edge case...
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:17:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509D0252.8070901@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5WeQEWdyaJuuNbnnQbbsLYv8NO1ZSj3eHHpjW+ToS9X1A@mail.gmail.com>

Am 11/9/2012 11:25, schrieb John Szakmeister:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> When merging two branches, git only looks at the tips. It doesn't inspect
>> their histories to see how the files were moved around. So i doesn't matter
>> whether you rename the files in a single commit or multiple commits. The
>> resulting tree is always the same.
> 
> I guess I figured that when I saw the final result, but didn't know if
> there was a way to coax Git into doing a better job here.

If the renames are split in two commits, you can merge the first, and then
the second on top of the result.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-09 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-09  9:10 Rename edge case John Szakmeister
2012-11-09  9:27 ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-11-09 10:25   ` John Szakmeister
2012-11-09 10:30     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-11-09 13:17     ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-11-09 16:09 ` Jeff King
2012-11-10  2:01   ` John Szakmeister

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