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project wide: git config entry for [diff] renames=true

From
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2014, 15:48 UTC
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<20140925150353.GA15325@kroah.com>
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> In the future, please generate a git "move" diff, which makes it easier
> to review, and prove that nothing really changed.  It also helps if the
> file is a bit different from what you diffed against, which in my case,
> was true.
Maybe it'd be possible to add 
[diff]
	renames = true
to the .git/config file.

but I don't find a mechanism to add anything to the .git/config and have it be pulled.

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