On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I ran into a line in git commit ouput I had not see before > > #copied: d0/etc/hosts -> misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts > > So googling I learned that this might happen if git thinks the two > files are the same. > > I was pretty sure they were not the same so checked them> > > <inside git repo> > > diff d0/etc/host misc/old-readerHOSTvcs-files/etc/hosts > > The output is a bit long but shows them being quite different. > > Some 2 dozen or so lines that dramatically differ. > > Here are two that are at least kind of similar but would never be seen > as the same: > > < 192.168.1.43 m2.local.lan m2 # 00-90-F5-A1-F9-E5 >> 192.168.1.43 m2.local.lan m2 # win 7 > > Not to mention they are quite different lines as well. > > So what is going on and what should I be looking at? The diff machinery has a threshold for when it assumes a copy/move of a file. (e.g. "A file is assumed copied when at least 55% of lines are equal") https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff See -C and -M option. git-status seems to use this machinery as well, but does not expose the options?
