From: Miklos Vajna Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:42:41 GMT Subject: Re: git-diff/git-diff-files: Turn off copy-detection? Message-ID: <20090929134241.GL32702@genesis.frugalware.org> In-Reply-To: <4AC20286.6020108@gmail.com> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:50:14PM +0200, Marius Storm-Olsen 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?