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Re: [OT?] Moving files with git, without losing history.



Charles Plessy scrisse:

> Despite it is written everywhere that Git automagically understands
> renames, if I move a file and do ‘git log’ on it, I do not see its
> history anymore. In contrary to what is documented on the interweb,
> adding --follow or setting diff.renames to true never worked in my
> hands.
> Any suggestion ?

Try with options -M, -C or --diff-filter=<mode> which detect copies and
renames (see `git log --help`).

Ciao, Luca

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