From what I understand, Git doesn't really need to track file rename/move/copy operations, so what's the real purpose of git mv? The man page isn't particularly descriptive... Is it obsolete? Is it...

I realize that git works by diff'ing the contents of files. I have some files that I want to copy. To absolutely prevent git from ever getting confused, is there some git command that can be used t...

I'd read that when renaming files in Git, you should commit any changes, perform your rename and then stage your renamed file. Git will recognise the file from the contents, rather than seeing it a...

When a file is renamed with git mv, the commit will show rename from and rename to, and in pull request shows the same, which is good. But when a file is git mved then changed, it looks there is a ...

This is a followup to another question I asked before. Before being edited, the initially created file something gets renamed to somethingelse which can be observed here: git mv something somethi...

Last month I started to contribute to a GitHub repository by forking the corresponding repo, creating a feature branch and then submitting a pull request. While repeating that process for a couple ...

I have the following git structure - git-repo a -- subdirectory 2015 --- git-submodule b -- git-submodule c --- git-submodule d I would like to move the git submodule c to the folder 2015. I kn...

Question Does it make a difference if I move Git tracked files with the git mv command as opposed to just moving the files with MS-DOS move or the Windows Explorer? Back in the Subversion days, it ...

I know that git provides the 'git rm' and 'git mv' to remove/move files or directories. But, I can't see the practical use case for this. Normally, I just mv or rm the files or whatever in the co...