[Insight-developers] Renames in ITK history :)

[Bill Lorensen]

Brad,

Can you add this to the wiki?

Bill

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 02:52 PM, Matthew McCormick (thewtex) wrote:
>> Yes, very nice.  As a side note, git has some smarts to detect renamed
>> files, but they try to limit the computational burden.  Git can be
>> helped along by using
>>   git mv
>> instead of just using mv.
>
> Actually there is no difference between "git mv" and
>
>  $ mv old new
>  $ git add new
>  $ git rm old
>
> The former (git mv) is just a helper to do all the steps.
> It never records renames explicitly.
>
> As Matt said, Git can follow content that is copied rather
> than renamed.  It just requires extra options to enable the
> behavior (-C) because it adds more computation time and is
> only needed occasionally.
>
> -Brad
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