On: Fossil vs Git

[pmoriarty]

Still, at the point you do a "git mv", it can't be said that git doesn't know you renamed a file. It knows.

In fact, after a "git mv foo bar", if you do a "git status", you'll see:

  On branch master
  Changes to be committed:
    (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
  
          renamed:    foo -> bar

If git chooses afterwards to discard that information and do nothing with that knowledge, that's a separate problem.

[kazinator → pmoriarty]

I don't know enough about Git internals in this regard, but it's possible that in fact the index is just being compared to HEAD to infer that information. Index has a file called "bar" and none called "foo". HEAD is vice versa.