Re: Renaming files with git not all that bad?

[Tassilo Horn]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

>> Couldn't the same effect be achieved in a simpler manner by copying
>> the original file N times in one commit and then stripping the copies
>> and original down to what they should eventually become?  (AFAIK, git
>> has no problem detecting literal copies.)
>
> Indeed, I tried this and it works for me, as long as the first commit
> is only literal copies.  Maybe Git’s ancestry detection through copies
> was not as advanced in the unspecified times when Raymond invented his
> technique.

Yes, that might be.  BTW, if you still have your test example: what
happens when you squash the copy commit and the following strip-down
commits?  Is the history still intact?  (I guess, no, but who knows.)

Bye,
Tassilo