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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:03:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv7773tp.fsf@local.lan> (raw)

I ran into a line in git commit ouput I had not see before

  #copied:     d0/etc/hosts -> misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts

So googling I learned that this might happen if git thinks the two
files are the same.

I was pretty sure they were not the same so checked them>

 <inside git repo>

diff d0/etc/host misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts

The output is a bit long but shows them being quite different.

Some 2 dozen or so lines that dramatically differ.

Here are two that are at least kind of similar but would never be seen
as the same:

< 192.168.1.43      m2.local.lan       m2       # 00-90-F5-A1-F9-E5
> 192.168.1.43    m2.local.lan        m2         # win 7

Not to mention they are quite different lines as well.

So what is going on and what should I be looking at?

next             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-10 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-10 17:03 Harry Putnam [this message]
2017-08-10 17:36 ` Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 18:18   ` Harry Putnam
2017-08-10 18:47     ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-11 20:41       ` Harry Putnam
2017-08-14 18:07         ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-14 19:21           ` Junio C Hamano

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