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Sonny
Sonny

Reputation: 8326

Git File Copy With History

I have a file that I've been happily committing changes to. I now realize that I will need to preserve the original file, and create a new file with the work I've done. I would like the commit history to be carried to the new file.

Is this a place to use Git rebase?

Another wrinkle is that I'm working in a branch that has been pushed to a repository.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 127

Answers (1)

Andrew C
Andrew C

Reputation: 14843

Git just doesn't track files that way.

Presuming old_file.txt and a desired new_file.txt just do 

cp old_file.txt new_file.txt
git add new_file.txt
git commit -m "clone new_file.txt from old_file.txt"

To track version history of new_file.txt you would use 

git log --follow new_file.txt

Upvotes: 1

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