From: Patrick Sabin <patrick.just4fun@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:32:54 GMT
Subject: How to git diff files in renamed directories
Message-ID: <CAGATVH7KCr+dJNpx18==3BT8pzsvKeV5aYRWKts7xH0YZ8yaKw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I want to diff a renamed file (to a different directory) in different commits.

File a was moved to the file subdir/c

I tried:

$ git diff b616d 0aa0 -- subdir/c a

but git seems to always diff against /dev/null:

diff --git a/a b/a
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e5ada8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+File a
diff --git a/subdir/c b/subdir/c
deleted file mode 100644
index 24c846c..0000000
--- a/subdir/c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-File b
-Another b change.

git log --follow subdir/c   recognizes that the file has been renamed
and moved to subdirectory.

Is there any way to get such a diff in git?

Regards,
Patrick