Exactly. I have never ever had an OS "cut-paste" operation work in a way that git didn't see as entirely new files that it never saw before. If it did work lik

Exactly. I have never ever had an OS "cut-paste" operation work in a way that git didn't see as entirely new files that it never saw before. If it did work like that, there would be no reason whatsoever for the "git mv" command to exist.