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copied!<p>'<code>git-log -M</code>' will give the commit history with rename information, as mentioned <a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_does_Git_not_.22track.22_renames.3F" rel="nofollow noreferrer">in GitFaq "Why does git not "track" renames ?"</a></p> <p>The <code>diff</code> machinery in Git has support for automatically detecting renames, this is turned on by the '<code>-M</code>' switch to the <code>git-diff-*</code> family of commands.<br> The rename detection machinery is used by <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/git-log" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>git-log</code></a> and <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-whatchanged.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>git-whatchanged</code></a>.<br> Git also supports a limited form of merging across renames. The two tools for assigning blame, <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-blame.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>git-blame</code></a> and <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-annotate.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>git-annotate</code></a> both use the automatic rename detection code to track renames.</p> <p>As a very special case, <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/git-log" rel="nofollow noreferrer">'<code>git log</code>'</a> version 1.5.3 and later <strong>has '<code>--follow</code>' option that allows you to follow renames when given a single path</strong>. </p> <hr> <p>in your example:</p> <pre><code>F:\prog\git\test\rename>git log --follow bar commit 81f52b91eb2fc7ad18051c93f3e4d583f27c15ca Author: VonC <> Date: Tue Jun 2 21:54:43 2009 +0200 renamed foo to bar commit 71aff26ace6ab249ab2042d1e5d20377486ce478 Author: VonC <> Date: Tue Jun 2 21:54:19 2009 +0200 edited foo commit c893199da767eddac6a547b940557435ade4d18c Author: VonC <> Date: Tue Jun 2 21:53:51 2009 +0200 initial commit </code></pre> <hr> <p>Note: all of this is possible because you did not drastically modified content of <code>foo</code> before renaming to bar. If the content was entirely different, the <code>--follow</code> option would not been able to get the all history.</p>

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