"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> As far as I recall "git diff" never defaulted to -M. > > Hm. Is this related?: > > commit 42efbf6d8a5b4902c55a2f6e96034625c056ba1f > Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Mar 11 17:44:10 2006 -0800 > > git-diff: -p disables rename detection. Ah, sorry, it _did_ default to -M; it was in such an ancient past and the shell wrapper wasn't initially done by me, so I misremembered. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html