From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:16:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git format-patch --break-rewrites broken in 2.9.3
Message-ID: <vpq60qyxdau.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20160818154813.GB9062@aepfle.de>

Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:

> 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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