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Duplicate GIT branching - branch a file to a new one and keep the original using the same data in the repo so they wont be stored twice
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gfs-git-dup.sh
#!/bin/bash
dupsrc=$1
newname=$2
branchname="dup-$dupsrc-$newname"
git checkout -b $branchname
git mv "$dupsrc" "$newname"
git commit . -m "dup:mv $dupsrc $newname"
git checkout HEAD~ "$dupsrc"
git commit . -m "restore:$dupsrc"
git checkout -
git merge --no-ff $branchname
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