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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb•enyo.de>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: renaming question
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:16:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vebbo0f1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03a701c7e28a$87914fc0$0600a8c0@ze4427wm> (Aaron Gray's message of "Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:58:20 +0100")

* Aaron Gray:

> I have a very large C source project that I am converting from C to C++.
>
> Is it posssible to track changes with renamed files in GIT ?

You don't need to rename the files if you compile them using g++.  If
you still want to rename them, most history-related GIT commands
accept an -M switch which enables rename ("move") detection.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-19 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-19 17:58 renaming question Aaron Gray
2007-08-19 18:16 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2007-08-19 18:32   ` Aaron Gray
2007-08-19 19:05     ` David Kastrup
2007-08-19 19:17       ` Aaron Gray
2007-08-19 19:49         ` David Kastrup
2007-08-19 20:37           ` Florian Weimer
2007-08-20  0:45             ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-20  1:30               ` Aaron Gray
2007-08-20  1:56               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-20  2:11     ` VMiklos
2007-08-20  2:40       ` Aaron Gray

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