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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: rm and add, but not rename, of identical files
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:09:47 +0200
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Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:

> It detects the changes as renames however=E2=80=94which in this case =
isn't
> appropriate:

Why is that a problem?  A rename is just something which is computed on
the fly for display purpose, the repository only stores a snapshot of
the resulting tree.

Andreas.

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