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Re: git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies

From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 6, 2008, 14:15 UTC
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<20080806141559.GA25791@atjola.homenet>
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<20080806140602.GA20423@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 2008.08.06 10:06:03 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> 
> > What do I need to enter in /etc/gitconfig to get all commands that
> > deal with diffs of some kind to honour renames=copies ?
> 
> $ git grep -A3 diff.renames
> config.txt:diff.renames::
> config.txt-     Tells git to detect renames.  If set to any boolean value, it
> config.txt-     will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
> config.txt-     "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
See subject line ;-)

Works for me though. Stephen, probably the source file didn't change in the same commit. In such a case you need --find-copies-harder, and that seems not to be configurable as the default.

Björn
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