Re: [PATCH 1/2] diff: report copies and renames as changes in run_diff_cmd()
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
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>> which is inconsistent with the quicker one. Fix it. Even if we ignore
>> the file contents (because it's empty or contains only ignored lines),
>> there's still the meta data change of adding or changing a filename, so
>> we need to report it in the exit code.
>> d7b97b7185 (diff: let external diffs report that changes are
>> uninteresting, 2024-06-09) set diff_from_contents if external diff
>> programs are allowed. This is the default e.g. for git diff, and so
>> that change exposed the inconsistency much more widely.
>
> Thanks for fixing this - both patches looks good to me.