From: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:36:15 GMT
Subject: Re: diff.renames not working?
Message-ID: <CAGyf7-F95A848hdM-CWPZvuvaSHF7p4qEftGoXMHNM5nyfDkeg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499BT35jvPtsuD9gfJB0HJ=NxtzyQOaiD7-=sHJbFYhphpg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 1:24 PM Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2. `diff -M` doesn't actually work either. It should, though. In fact,
> I expected it to work as `--follow` does. But it doesn't.

Just a small point of clarification: Is -M really what you mean here?
Given you indicated you have "diff.renames=copies", wouldn't you need
-C? -M only detects renames, not copies.

(I haven't looked too deeply into the rest, but this detail caught my eye.)

Best regards,
Bryan Turner


> 3. The `diff.renames` config doesn't seem to be working here, when it should.
>
> Can someone explain the behavior I'm seeing? I really am confused
> about all this...
>
> [1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff