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--diff-filter could use option for pre-rename files

Subject: --diff-filter could use option for pre-rename files

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Nathan Bush· May 18, 2018, 18:13 UTC · lore
I've been trying to hook together a build script and a GIT repo.
At one points it makes the following calls:

git diff --find-copies-harder --find-renames=101% --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT 'refs/tags/0.0.25' 'refs/tags/0.0.27' > modified.txt git diff --find-copies-harder --find-renames=101% --name-only --diff-filter=D 'refs/tags/0.0.25' 'refs/tags/0.0.27' > deleted.txt

If a file was renamed, but otherwise unchanged (and needs to be deleted by the build script), the files' original name does not appear on either list. Or, as far as I can tell, at all.

My current scripted workaround is something like

older = `git ls-tree --name-only --full-tree -r 'refs/tags/0.0.25'` newer = `git ls-tree --name-only --full-tree -r 'refs/tags/0.0.27'` deleted = older - newer (puts deleted in deleted.txt)

Ideally this would just be a diff-filter option, say, --diff-filter=DE
-Nathan Bush

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