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From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Subject: Re: What about git cp ?
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:55:14 +0100
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"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a something which could be done by a git-cp command.
>
> I'd like to copy a file with its history to a new  file but want to
> keep the old one,

Git don't attach history to a file, but to a content. Just do a:
cp foo bar
git add bar
git commit -m "copying foo to bar"

And it will be done, and when needed, git will be able to know that
this was a copy.

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R=C3=A9mi Vanicat