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TechBro8615 on May 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Happiness is a freshly organized codebase

If you `git mv`, then immediately commit (without making any additional changes), I think it will recognize it as a move 100% of the time (i.e., will not use its "similarity index"). I'm not certain of that though.

darekkay on May 8, 2020 | [–]

That's correct, but this also applies to "move file" + "git add". Just make sure to commit the "move" and "change" parts separately.

hansvm on May 8, 2020 | [–]

Sure, but if you mv and git add without making any additional changes and then immediately commit, it'll also get picked up as a move 100% of the time.

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