Thanks again Mike. Your message did make some things clear.
perhaps, I should again reframe my question then.
I don't want to get the git source on my local work space (so not use git
clone).
But I want to copy the file from one location to another using Git Lab API.
Example in one of the links th
Thanks, Shikha. I'm not sure I clearly expressed my point. Git doesn't record anything about file renames, moves or copies. The data you are looking to register with the GitLab API isn't possible to store in Git.As explained here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1043566/5419599Git does not do rename
Thanks Mike for your response. Perhaps I didnot explain the question very
well.
1. Yes I would like to do a copy not a move.
2. I would like to use the gitlab API to do that,
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/README.html
The only API I found so far
was https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/repository_fil
Copy or move?
If you mean move, then what you want is probably "git log --follow filename"
after you move it. But GitLab does that in the history viewer already.
As for preserving the commit history of a single file, I suggest you dig in
deep to how Git really works, because GitLab is built on
