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What does the 100 in R100 mean?

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TJTodd A. Jacobs <nospam@codegnome.org>
Date
May 14, 2010, 11:21 UTC
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<20100514112145.GQ12846@penguin.codegnome.org>

When I'm looking at the output for renamed files in git-log or git-whatchanged, renamed files always seem to say "R100." So, I looked in the man page, followed the internal references to --diff-filter, and remain stumped as to what the digits stand for. I couldn't even find an explanatory comment in the git source code.

Obviously, R is for "(R)enamed." What is the "100" for? If it's being returned as a flag to --name-status and friends, it should probably be documented somewhere.

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