On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:31AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > In the future, please generate a git "move" diff, which makes it easier
> > to review, and prove that nothing really changed. It also helps if the
> > file is a bit different from what you diffed against, which in my case,
> > was true.
>
> Maybe it'd be possible to add
>
> [diff]
> renames = true
>
> to the .git/config file.
>
> but I don't find a mechanism to add anything to the
> .git/config and have it be pulled.
There is no such mechanism within git. We've resisted adding one because
of the danger of something like:
[diff]
external = rm -rf /
diff.renames is probably safe, but any config-sharing mechanism would
have to deal with either whitelisting, or providing some mechanism for
the puller to review changes before blindly following them.
-Peff
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