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

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@storm-olsen.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2009, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <4AC218BB.4080807@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AC20E37.3090204@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt said the following on 29.09.2009 15:40:

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> Marius Storm-Olsen schrieb:
>> Doing a 'git diff origin/4.5..origin/4.6 -- src/corelib' gives me this
>> excerpt:
>>
>> diff --git origin/4.5/src/corelib/tools/qtimeline.h
>> origin/4.6/src/corelib/animation/qabstractanimation.h
>> similarity index 58%
>> ...
> 
> You must have the config variable diff.renames set. But I would not expect
> that this setting applies to 'git diff-files', only to 'git diff'.

$ git config diff.renames copies

That's it, thanks! Strange that nothing in the git-diff documentation pointed me in this direction? Obviously I didn't connect the dots between 'copy' and 'renames' either..

> You can also try 'git diff -C99 -M99' if you don't want to unset the
> config variable.

Thanks, I'll add that to my review script. Much appreciated!

-- .marius