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[Jeff King]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:54:38PM +0200, Nicholas Allen wrote:

> I would have thought that supports renames would also involve flagging a 
> conflict when merging a file that has been renamed on 2 separate 
> branches. ie 2 branches rename the file to different names and then one 
> branch is merged into the other. In this situation, the user should be 
> told of a rename conflict. Bzr supports this as far as I know. Not sure 
> about git though as I have never used it.

It works as you expect:

$ git-init-db
$ touch foo
$ git-add foo
$ git-commit -m foo
Committing initial tree 4d5fcadc293a348e88f777dc0920f11e7d71441c
$ git-checkout -b other
$ git-mv foo bar
$ git-commit -m bar
$ git-checkout master
$ git-mv foo baz
$ git-commit -m baz$a
$ git-pull . other
Trying really trivial in-index merge...
fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
Nope.
Merging HEAD with 5a1dfd32c56a24d0ef06f0e71d731fcd49d5dc6e
Merging:
76ac76ee3ce890d43648ebc009d278dc81a327e0 baz
5a1dfd32c56a24d0ef06f0e71d731fcd49d5dc6e bar
found 1 common ancestor(s):
c9e7e95de6fdbb2af06ea44cc60d1ac1a63eaad6 foo
CONFLICT (rename/rename): Rename foo->baz in branch HEAD rename foo->bar
in 5a1dfd32c56a24d0ef06f0e71d731fcd49d5dc6e
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

-Peff