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Bug 347663

Summary: [client] Rename appears as outgoing delete and create in git status page
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component: GitAssignee: Project Inbox <orion.git-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen, simon_kaegi, Szymon.Brandys
Version: unspecifiedKeywords: investigate
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 349168    
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Description John Arthorne CLA 2011-05-30 11:24:29 EDT 
I20110530

If you rename a file, it appears as an outgoing creation of the new file, and an outgoing deletion of the old file. It would be helpful to show this as a single rename, with the ability to open the compare diff showing any other changes to the file (similar to how the git command line handles it).

I don't think this is important for 0.2.
Comment 1 Missing name CLA 2011-10-05 04:53:46 EDT 
I have the same problem. I rename a file in branch A, modify the same file in branch B, and then do a merge, the branches are not correctly merged.

With git commandline this works.
Comment 2 Tomasz Zarna CLA 2011-12-12 08:56:27 EST 
"git mv" is nothing more than "mv {old} {new};git add {new};git rm {old}". In order this to work we would need to add some kind of a hook (something like org.eclipse.core.resources.team.TeamHook in Platform). Is there any other way?
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2011-12-15 11:50:28 EST 
With command line git this works without even using "git mv". I.e., if I move a file using Eclipse, command line, etc, then after adding the changes they show up in git status as moved. I assume they are using the file content hash to detect that they are the same file.
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 14:50:38 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html