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Jason S
Jason S

Reputation: 189656

git equivalent of 'hg rename -A'

Is there a git equivalent of hg rename -A in Mercurial, which renames a file in the version control repository "after the fact", in case I or an application I run decides to rename a file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 107

Answers (1)

torek
torek

Reputation: 488163

Git doesn't actually record renames: instead, it synthesizes them later, when comparing two trees (as for git show or git log -p, or even git status). So it's not necessary to use git mv to create-and-record a rename operation.

As Keith Thompson noted in a comment, you can use the two-step method of putting the name back temporarily, then using git mv to un-undo (or re-do) the rename along with the steps needed to get git to see it. But you can also git rm --cached the old name and git add the new name to update the index. As long as the file contents are unchanged (or sufficiently similar), git will subsequently show the file as moved.

Upvotes: 3

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