From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:42:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: implement config.diff.renames=copies-harder
Message-ID: <87frwwmomn.fsf@gentoo.org>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1606.git.1699010701704.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Sam James via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
>
> This patch adds a config value for 'diff.renames' called 'copies-harder'
> which make it so '-C -C' is in effect always passed for 'git log -p',
> 'git diff', etc.
>
> This allows specifying that 'git log -p', 'git diff', etc should always act
> as if '-C --find-copies-harder' was passed.
>
> I've found this especially useful for certain types of repository (like
> Gentoo's ebuild repositories) because files are often copies of a previous
> version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
> ---
>     diff: implement config.diff.renames=copies-harder
>     
>     This patch adds a config value for 'diff.renames' called 'copies-harder'
>     which make it so '-C -C' is in effect always passed for 'git log -p',
>     'git diff', etc.
>     
>     This allows specifying that 'git log -p', 'git diff', etc should always
>     act as if '-C --find-copies-harder' was passed.
>     
>     I've found this especially useful for certain types of repository (like
>     Gentoo's ebuild repositories) because files are often copies of a
>     previous version.
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1606%2Fthesamesam%2Fconfig-copies-harder-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1606/thesamesam/config-copies-harder-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1606
>

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231226202102.3392518-1-sam@gentoo.org/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240311213928.1872437-1-sam@gentoo.org/