From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:42:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] diff: activate diff.renames by default
Message-ID: <20160224104203.GD21152@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1456249498-3232-6-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
> index 1acd203..fdf5a79 100644
> --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ diff.renames::
>  	Whether and how Git detects renames.  If set to "false",
>  	rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
>  	detection is enable.  If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will
> -	detect copies, as well.  Defaults to false.
> +	detect copies, as well.  Defaults to true.

I wonder if we need to talk about plumbing versus porcelain here, as it
does not default to true for diff-tree, for example. But I guess that is
already the case (even setting it to true yourself does not affect
diff-tree).

-Peff