Re: [jgit-dev] "git mv" with jgit?

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Christian. I suspected there was more to it than I was aware of.

- thomas

On 2011-12-19 14:30, Christian Halstrick wrote:
> > Git has an 'mv' command that makes it possible to move or renames files and
> > folders with retained history. How can I accomplish the same thing using
> > jgit?
> Hi,
>
> the mv command is currently beeing added to the jgit api (see
> http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4790). But be aware that you don't
> need the 'git mv' command to achieve what you want. See this
> discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094269/whats-the-purpose-of-git-mv
>
> See here: http://egit.eclipse.org/w/?p=jgit.git;a=blob;f=org.eclipse.jgit.test/tst/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/RenameDetectorTest.java;hb=refs/heads/master
> for some examples in JGit.
>
> Ciao
>    Chris