Re: git history of files moved in SVN

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Apr 14, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com> wrote:

> Ouch--you'd think that this kind of thing would work.  I guess none of the dissectors have a history prior to The 
> Great Dissector Move of 2004/7/18.  Pity, as I recall a significant portion of the reason to move to SVN (from CVS) 
> was so that files could be moved without losing history.

They can, but I think it's done a bit weirdly internally to SVN (as an add, with a copy of the history and some other 
information, and a delete), and perhaps history is lost on a conversion to Git.

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