From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:28:59 GMT
Subject: Re: detecting rename->commit->modify->commit
Message-ID: <20080501152859.GA11469@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4819E0AE.40602@tikalk.com>

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:24:30PM +0300, Ittay Dror wrote:

> Btw, this happened to me in a real use case. I wanted to restructure a  
> source tree. So I put it under git and started to happily move things  
> around, always committing after a move. I thought that git will correctly 
> identify these moves and show me the differences I made after (in a 
> separate commit). But it doesn't, and now that I want to prepare a  
> summary of the changes I've made, I'm stuck with a huge diff that is hard 
> to make sense of.

If you have a specific case where you think renames should have been
detected but they weren't, by all means, please share it. It's possible
that there is a bug in the rename detection, or that the limits are not
set correctly, and we could improve it.

-Peff