On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Urs Thuermann <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes I need to rename and change a file in one commit. One > example would be a file foo.h that begins with > > #ifndef FOO_H > #define FOO_H > > which should be renamed bar.h and have the FOO_H changed to BAR_H. > In subversion I would > > svn mv foo.h bar.h; vi bar.h; svn ci > > and then a > > svn log bar.h > > also shows the history of that file when it was named foo.h. > > This does not work in git. > ... > Is there a better way to do this in git?
We could if we allowed rename annotation, similar to that "svn mv" command. I worked on that a while back [1] then I stopped because of a design conflict. But I'm almost convinced Jeff and Junio were right (and I wrong) now so I will likely revive that series before 2019 hits. [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/ -- Duy
