6.5 Following Content
As we talked about in Copying Files—or Not, Git can track when the content moves within a file and even when it moves to another file. This is useful when you’re trying to track down the original commit and author of a few lines of code.
To keep from matching lines like a closing bracket in C or a simple constructor in Python, Git tries to match at least three lines when it tries to detect a copy and paste.
Let’s create a new file to demonstrate this functionality. Call it
original.txt, and put the following three lines in it:
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This is the first line. |
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This happens to be the second line. |
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And this, it is the third and final line. |
Once you’ve saved your new file, add it to the ...
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