From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:39:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Intensive rename detection
Message-ID: <7vy700s215.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <216e54900811031718o4cc81294sc0c32be1e71b9372@mail.gmail.com>

"Andrew Arnott" <andrewarnott@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm refactoring a library including renaming both files and
> directories.  A few lines of each file are also changed, but they are
> substantially unchanged in content.  I've done a git add to put all my
> changes into the index, but a git status shows that git only detected
> a few of the renames... most of them are delete-add operations.  Is
> there anything I can do to help git recognize the rename so that
> history is preserved across this commit?

There is no need to do anything at commit time.

After making the commit, you can look at it with lower similarity
threashold, e.g.

	git show --stat -M1 HEAD

The default behaviour IIRC corresponds to -M5 (that is 50%).