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Re: git status / git diff -C not detecting file copy

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Dec 2, 2014, 14:15 UTC
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Jeff,
Thanks much for the detailed answer and analysis.
> Does either of you want to try your hand at a patch? Just enabling
> copies should be a one-liner. Making it configurable is more involved,
> but should also be pretty straightforward.

I'll have to pass on this. I'm absolutely not familiar with the Git source code nor with the contributing guidelines and process at this time. I'm currently working on libgit2 and trying to clone the git status behavior and that's how I discovered this file copy detection issue.

In the meantime, shouldn't we patch the docs? That should be trivial for sure.
- Pol
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