Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I think you are right that diff-index could work, though. I always
>> forget that without "--cached", diff-index looks at the working tree
>> files.
>
> I'll reword the log message while queuing.
The last paragraph became like so:
The correct solution is to move to an appropriate plumbing
command. But in the short term lets ask git-diff not to respect
renames.