On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > git format-patch -p
> >
> > does the trick at least here :)
>
> Ok, I can use that in future. I hope it still means that in the eventual
> merged state, GIT will be aware of all the renames.
git does not store the "renamed/copied" info at all. That's just an
optimization. It does not matter if you use git-mv or just apply a
patch which does the same. git figures that out by looking at the
changes AFAICT, but not by storing metadata which keeps track of this.
Thanks,
tglx
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