Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Git's heuristics to detect renames or copies works most of the time. > This option can be used to correct the result when it goes wrong. > Matching pairs get max rename score and override even exact rename > detection. > > Note that --rename-file does not try to break existing diff pairs. So > if you have "abc => def" in your file, but they are already paired up > (e.g. "abc => abc" and "def => def") and not broken down by -B, then > nothing happens. By the way, how would this interact with "diff -R"? Do you need to spell --rename-file in reverse before you can run the diff in reverse? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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