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Development Tools Introduction to Git Managing Committed Files Moving Files

Lisa Weil
Lisa Weil
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Posted by Lisa Weil
Lisa Weil
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Are we actually renaming the file or just replacing it?

Are we renaming the silver.txt file name to silver.html or replacing it with our silver.html file?

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Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

Not sure I fully understand the question. I believe that on the back end, Git does treat git mv silver.txt silver.html as the deletion of silver.txt and the addition of silver.html. But that detail is completely hidden from users (and might not even be true anymore as of recent versions, I'm not sure). So it's probably best to think of it as simply moving the file from one name to another.