From 70016b24876881ef93960b066c3465d9ad14ee0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Strickroth Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:38:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation regarding renaming in Git Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth --- doc/source/en/TortoiseGit/tgit_dug/dug_rename.xml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/source/en/TortoiseGit/tgit_dug/dug_rename.xml b/doc/source/en/TortoiseGit/tgit_dug/dug_rename.xml index 57639823b..29422565b 100644 --- a/doc/source/en/TortoiseGit/tgit_dug/dug_rename.xml +++ b/doc/source/en/TortoiseGit/tgit_dug/dug_rename.xml @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ Unlike CVS, Git allows renaming and moving of files and folders. So there are menu entries for delete and rename - in the TortoiseGit submenu. + in the TortoiseGit submenu. However, unlike SVN Git does not track filenames. + Git only tracks the content of files. So there is in general no need to use the + Git rename or remove functionality or even to "repair renames" as in SVN. Renames + and copies are automatically detected when showing the log.
Explorer context menu for versioned files -- 2.11.4.GIT