From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:22:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff.c: respect diff.renames config option
Message-ID: <7v7j2p3eac.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11522670473116-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> diff.renames is mentioned several times in the documentation,
> but to my surprise it didn't do anything before this patch.

I am really reluctant to do this at this low-level, especially
since there is no way to defeat the settings from the command
line.

> @@ -120,6 +121,16 @@ int git_diff_config(const char *var, con
>  			diff_use_color_default = git_config_bool(var, value);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "diff.renames")) {
> +		if (!value)
> +			diff_detect_rename_default = DIFF_DETECT_RENAME;
> +		else if (!strcasecmp(value, "copies") ||
> +			 !strcasecmp(value, "copy"))
> +			diff_detect_rename_default = DIFF_DETECT_COPY;
> +		else
> +			diff_detect_rename_default = git_config_bool(var,value);
> +		return 0;
> +	}

I suspect this works only because DIFF_DETECT_RENAME happens to
be 1?