From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:51:20 GMT Subject: Re: when is "git diff" output suitable for patch? Message-ID: <7v3bd5uqav.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20060713213116.GK19366@fieldses.org> "J. Bruce Fields" writes: >> As far as I recall "git diff" never defaulted to -M. > > Hm. Is this related?: > > commit 42efbf6d8a5b4902c55a2f6e96034625c056ba1f > Author: Junio C Hamano > 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.