From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:53:14 GMT
Subject: Re: when is "git diff" output suitable for patch?
Message-ID: <20060713215313.GO19366@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bd5uqav.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:51:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> 
> >> As far as I recall "git diff" never defaulted to -M.
> >
> > Hm.  Is this related?:
> >
> > commit 42efbf6d8a5b4902c55a2f6e96034625c056ba1f
> > Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> > Date:   Sat Mar 11 17:44:10 2006 -0800
> >
> >     git-diff: -p disables rename detection.
> 
> Ah, sorry, it _did_ default to -M; it was in such an ancient
> past and the shell wrapper wasn't initially done by me, so I
> misremembered.

Perfectly understandable; thanks for the help.--b.