Re: How to keep log history when renaming and changing simultaneously

[Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>]

Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> writes:

> For both cases (renaming and splitting), would using `--find-copies` 
> work for you? Perhaps with some low threshold value to start with, if 
> the default one yields no results.
> 
> If interested, adding `--name-status` to the mix will show similarity 
> percentage between old and new file(s).

I didn't know --find-copies and --name-status and I've now looked them
up in the doc.  Looks interesting but instead of looking for
similarity it would be better IMHO if there was a command "git cp" and
that "git mv" and "git cp" were recorded in the history somehow.

I'm still using CVS (and SVN in some few cases) but considering
changing to git.  There are some things, however, that I can do more
easily in CVS (like editing CVS ,v files instead of git commit
--amend) and I need to learn more git before I want to change (and
migrate existing repos).

urs