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

1 messages from 2018-05-18 to 2018-05-18. Participants: Nathan Bush.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48517

## Nathan Bush, 2018-05-18 18:13

Subject: --diff-filter could use option for pre-rename files
Message-ID: <278e5e56-f031-5e84-67ac-315b38f1b64c@newshubmedia.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/278e5e56-f031-5e84-67ac-315b38f1b64c%40newshubmedia.com

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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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