Rename or Move files in GIT
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4 min readNov 13, 2018
Git keeps track of changes to files in the working directory of a repository by their name. When you move or rename a file, Git doesn’t see that a file was moved; it sees that there’s a file with a new filename, and the file with the old filename was deleted (even if the contents remain the same).
As a result, renaming or moving a file in Git is essentially the same operation; both tell Git to look for an existing…
