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From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
To: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What about git cp ?
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:55:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcgplvjh.dlv@maison.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0802031023y2ed7a5aax6d3c404b08757a4d@mail.gmail.com> (Francis Moreau's message of "Sun\, 3 Feb 2008 19\:23\:12 +0100")

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a something which could be done by a git-cp command.
>
> I'd like to copy a file with its history to a new  file but want to
> keep the old one,

Git don't attach history to a file, but to a content. Just do a:
cp foo bar
git add bar
git commit -m "copying foo to bar"

And it will be done, and when needed, git will be able to know that
this was a copy.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-03 18:23 What about git cp ? Francis Moreau
2008-02-03 18:46 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-02-03 19:07   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-10  1:12     ` [RFC/PATCH] Implement git-cp Miklos Vajna
2008-02-10  1:26       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10  7:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-10 12:33           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10 12:42             ` Miklos Vajna
2008-02-10 13:29           ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-02-11  1:30           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-11 10:18           ` Matthieu Moy
2008-02-11 13:43             ` Miklos Vajna
2008-02-10 18:24         ` [PATCH] " Miklos Vajna
2008-02-03 18:55 ` Remi Vanicat [this message]

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