In my experience, when I rename a file, git will detect the rename on my next commit. However, now I want to rename a file, say from old_name to new_n ...

As part of task I have, I need to consolidate components from three places to one place. In other words, move folders (which include many subfolders a ...

I have a directory with a single file Foo.java defining a class under package com.a.b.c under a specific package i.e. src/com/a/b/c/Foo.java I want to ...

I've moved a bunch of files to a separate branch, to avoid mixing separate histories. Then I moved the files on the new branch to / (so that they can ...

I had a file: a.cs which I renamed to: b.cs and made some logic changes in b.cs Now I realized I need to re-add a.cs BUT keep b.cs. I added back ...

I have some csv files that I modify on a regular basis, they don't really contain any sensitive information, they are just used as imports into a prog ...

In a git repo, I accidentally moved a file, A, to B, instead of deleting A and creating a completely new B. How can I delete A and create a new B dur ...

There are other answers regarding handling merge for a rename, but my case is complicated enough that I thought it warranted a separate question. We ...

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 ...

I've one folder with ~300 files and ~30 folders. I did cut the folder(Ctrl+X) and pasted(Ctrl+V) on the expected folder. Then I only did a git add -A ...

There are lots of questions on this site regarding the behavior of git mv and how to retrieve the history of a file across name boundaries. I understa ...

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 confuse ...

This is a followup to another question I asked before. Before being edited, the initially created file something gets renamed to somethingelse which ...

Last month I started to contribute to a GitHub repository by forking the corresponding repo, creating a feature branch and then submitting a pull requ ...

I have about 10 directories, each with contents that match this pattern: and I want to rename these files to: is there a mv or git mv command th ...

I have a git repository with >100 commits that I initialized awhile back in the following path: /Users/myusername/ However, all of my commits ar ...

I have two branches that I try to merge. In the original branch I have some files that in the 2nd branch where moved to a different location. the prob ...

Please forgive my ignorance here... Here's the background: I created a TestScritps directory to organize test scripts. I moved three scripts from < ...

In bash I can do find . -name jndi.properties -exec rename 's/jndi/environment/' {} \; to recursively find all jndi.propertie files and have them rena ...

I've accidentally used mv to rename a file which was under git. I renamed the file from lower case to uppercase keeping the name same. mv abc.java AB ...