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Re: git format-patch --break-rewrites broken in 2.9.3

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Aug 18, 2016, 16:16 UTC
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Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
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> On Thu, Aug 18, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Olaf, what version of patch are you using?
>
> Mostly 2.7.x, but also add 2.5.x to the mix.
> So far I did not try what the tools dealing with the resulting patch
> file would actually do with such a stripped down variant.

I think the way to go is --no-renames until you stop using patch <2.7. If you don't want to specify it each time, you can revert to the pre-2.9 behavior by setting

[diff]
	renames = false
in ~/.gitconfig.
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Matthieu Moy
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  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 18, 2016
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  5. Jeff KingAug 18, 2016
  6. Jeff KingAug 18, 2016
  7. Philip OakleyAug 19, 2016
  8. Andreas SchwabAug 19, 2016
  9. Jeff KingAug 18, 2016
  10. Olaf HeringAug 18, 2016
  11. Matthieu MoyAug 18, 2016

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