Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefan Beller writes: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Stefan Beller writes: >> >> >> [...] >> >>> Ah. Sorry for confusing even more. >>> By pointing out the options for git-diff, I just wanted to point out that >>> such a mechanism ("rename/copy detection") exists. >>

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-14 Thread Stefan Beller
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Stefan Beller writes: > > > [...] > >> Ah. Sorry for confusing even more. >> By pointing out the options for git-diff, I just wanted to point out that >> such a mechanism ("rename/copy detection") exists. > > > [...] > >>> What am I missing?

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Stefan Beller writes: [...] > Ah. Sorry for confusing even more. > By pointing out the options for git-diff, I just wanted to point out that > such a mechanism ("rename/copy detection") exists. [...] >> What am I missing? >> > > https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/3ogkk1/beginner_disable_r

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-10 Thread Stefan Beller
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Stefan Beller writes: > >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > [...] > > Harry wrote: >>> Here are two that are at least kind of similar but would never be seen >>> as the same: >>> >>> < 192.168.1.43 m2.local.lan

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Stefan Beller writes: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] Harry wrote: >> Here are two that are at least kind of similar but would never be seen >> as the same: >> >> < 192.168.1.43 m2.local.lan m2 # 00-90-F5-A1-F9-E5 >>> 192.168.1.43m2.local.lan

Re: Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-10 Thread Stefan Beller
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I ran into a line in git commit ouput I had not see before > > #copied: d0/etc/hosts -> misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts > > So googling I learned that this might happen if git thinks the two > files are the same. > > I was pretty

Not understanding with git wants to copy one file to another

2017-08-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I ran into a line in git commit ouput I had not see before #copied: d0/etc/hosts -> misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts So googling I learned that this might happen if git thinks the two files are the same. I was pretty sure they were not the same so checked them> diff d0/etc/host m