On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 02:05:32PM +0000, FMorschel wrote: > This is a request to add an –after mode to git mv command to explicitly > mark a filesystem rename after it has occurred (analogous to mercurial > => hg mv –after). > > This would allow IDE/Language refactor renames/moves and would make sure > git still detects the moves correctly for keeping the correct commit > history. Git does not track renames in the commits in creates, so, basically, if you have a file foo.txt under the Git's control, and do $ git mv foo.txt bar.txt $ git commit The recorded commit will reference a tree object which will - compared to the tree object of the preceding commit - have an entry for bar.txt and not have an entry for foo.txt. Hence a command like "git mv --after", if implemented, would be a pure syntactic sugar for "git rm <old_name> && git add <new_name>".
