On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:26:32PM -0400, Michael Witten wrote:

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>>> touch the working tree".  Here we want to touch the working tree
>>> in the sense of moving the file.  So --cached is not the correct
>>> option name.
>>
>> Doesn't "mv" do that?
>
> We only want to move it, not also add its dirty contents.

Right, I mean regular "mv", not "git-mv". The only thing that doesn't
accomplish is moving the "from" entry in the index to the "to" entry
(but I'm not sure that's such a good idea).  Perhaps I've lost sight of
your original goal. Can you state more succintly what you are trying to
accomplish?

-Peff
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