From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:23:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Intensive rename detection
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811032022580.3419@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811032021210.3419@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>



On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> You could try adding
> 
> 	[diff]
> 		renamelimit=0
> 
> to your ~/.gitconfig file. It can be quite expensive though.

Oh, and obviously Junio is right that some create/deletes won't be seen as 
renames anyway, if you changed enough of the file and/or if the files in 
question are so small that they end up being considered rewrites just 
because of that.

		Linus