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Re: when is "git diff" output suitable for patch?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 13, 2006, 21:51 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
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>> As far as I recall "git diff" never defaulted to -M.
>
> Hm.  Is this related?:
>
> commit 42efbf6d8a5b4902c55a2f6e96034625c056ba1f
> Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> Date:   Sat Mar 11 17:44:10 2006 -0800
>
>     git-diff: -p disables rename detection.

Ah, sorry, it _did_ default to -M; it was in such an ancient past and the shell wrapper wasn't initially done by me, so I misremembered.

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