On 07/21/2012 09:08 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > ... >> This [change-set] LOOKS huge, but is really just a couple of 'git mv' >> commands and a change to nodeinfotest.c. Scroll to the bottom for >> the real change; I've shortened boring parts of this mail to get past >> the 100k mail cap enforced by the list. > > If you set git diff's "renames" option, (i.e., globally): > > git config --global diff.renames true I've already done that (2 years ago). > > then "git diff", format-patch, etc. output is much more readable, > i.e., it excludes the "remove-entire-file" then "add-same-contents" > diff output. Instead it just prints something like this: > > diff --git a/old b/new > similarity index 100% > rename from old > rename to new Nope. Even WITH diff.renames turned on, my patch was more than 100k, because doing a single 'git mv' of a directory with hundreds of children resulted in hundreds of these 4-line rename notations, which added up fast. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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