From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:25:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies
Message-ID: <20080806152537.GB21233@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080806141559.GA25791@atjola.homenet>

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:15:59PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> > $ 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 ;-)

Heh. Yes, oops. His question makes a lot more sense now. ;)

> 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.

I don't think it is configurable. Probably a "copiesharder" option for
diff.renames would be a sane addition.

-Peff