# git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies

4 messages from 2008-08-06 to 2008-08-06. Participants: Stephen R. van den Berg, Jeff King, Björn Steinbrink.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14861

## Stephen R. van den Berg, 2008-08-06 11:43

Subject: git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies
Message-ID: <20080806114340.GA24552@cuci.nl>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080806114340.GA24552%40cuci.nl

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What do I need to enter in /etc/gitconfig to get all commands that
deal with diffs of some kind to honour renames=copies ?
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

If there's a hard way to do something, I'm there before anyone else.

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## Jeff King, 2008-08-06 14:06

Subject: Re: git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies
Message-ID: <20080806140602.GA20423@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080806140602.GA20423%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20080806114340.GA24552@cuci.nl>

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> What do I need to enter in /etc/gitconfig to get all commands that
> deal with diffs of some kind to honour renames=copies ?

$ git grep -A3 diff.renames
config.txt:diff.renames::
config.txt-     Tells git to detect renames.  If set to any boolean value, it
config.txt-     will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
config.txt-     "copy", it will detect copies, as well.

-Peff

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## Björn Steinbrink, 2008-08-06 14:15

Subject: Re: git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies
Message-ID: <20080806141559.GA25791@atjola.homenet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080806141559.GA25791%40atjola.homenet
In-Reply-To: <20080806140602.GA20423@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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On 2008.08.06 10:06:03 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> 
> > What do I need to enter in /etc/gitconfig to get all commands that
> > deal with diffs of some kind to honour renames=copies ?
> 
> $ git grep -A3 diff.renames
> config.txt:diff.renames::
> config.txt-     Tells git to detect renames.  If set to any boolean value, it
> config.txt-     will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
> config.txt-     "copy", it will detect copies, as well.

See subject line ;-)

Works for me though. Stephen, probably the source file didn't change in
the same commit. In such a case you need --find-copies-harder, and that
seems not to be configurable as the default.

Björn

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## Jeff King, 2008-08-06 15:25

Subject: Re: git show doesn't respect config: diff.renames=copies
Message-ID: <20080806152537.GB21233@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080806152537.GB21233%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20080806141559.GA25791@atjola.homenet>

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:15:59PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> > $ git grep -A3 diff.renames
> > config.txt:diff.renames::
> > config.txt-     Tells git to detect renames.  If set to any boolean value, it
> > config.txt-     will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
> > config.txt-     "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
> 
> See subject line ;-)

Heh. Yes, oops. His question makes a lot more sense now. ;)

> Works for me though. Stephen, probably the source file didn't change in
> the same commit. In such a case you need --find-copies-harder, and that
> seems not to be configurable as the default.

I don't think it is configurable. Probably a "copiesharder" option for
diff.renames would be a sane addition.

-Peff

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