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Re: git-diff/git-diff-files: Turn off copy-detection?

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Sep 29, 2009, 13:42 UTC
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<20090929134241.GL32702@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:50:14PM +0200, Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, not even related. They should really had shown up as new files, 
> IMO. (I guess git stores the creation of the file as a delta of the 
> indicated 'copy', but in this case I don't care about that :)

No, it does not (as long as we are not talking about packfiles). AFAIK copy detection is disabled by default, so probably you have a setting that enables it for you and you forgot about it. Are you sure you don't have any settings like diff.renames = copies?

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  1. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 29, 2009
  2. Johannes SixtSep 29, 2009
  3. Marius Storm-OlsenSep 29, 2009
  4. Miklos VajnaSep 29, 2009
  5. Miklos VajnaSep 29, 2009

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