Let's ignore how bad this patch is for git.git, and just focus on how diff.colorMoved treats it: diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c index f65c172299..d1155322ef 100644 --- a/builtin/add.c +++ b/builtin/add.c @@ -6,5 +6,3 @@ #include "cache.h" -#include "config.h" #include "builtin.h" -#include "lockfile.h" #include "dir.h" diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c index 8f27f3375b..eded15aa8a 100644 --- a/builtin/am.c +++ b/builtin/am.c @@ -6,3 +6,2 @@ #include "cache.h" -#include "config.h" #include "builtin.h" diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c index 06a7163ffe..44a754f190 100644 --- a/builtin/blame.c +++ b/builtin/blame.c @@ -8,3 +8,2 @@ #include "cache.h" -#include "config.h" #include "color.h" diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h index ca36b44ee0..ea8d60b94a 100644 --- a/cache.h +++ b/cache.h @@ -4,2 +4,4 @@ #include "git-compat-util.h" +#include "config.h" +#include "new.h" #include "strbuf.h" This is a common thing that's useful to have highlighted, e.g. we move includes of config.h to some common file, so I want to se all the deleted config.h lines as moved into the cache.h line, and then the "lockfile.h" I removed while I was at it plain remove, and the new "new.h" plain added. Exactly that is what you get with diff.colorMoved=plain, but the default of diff.colorMoved=zebra gets confused by this and highlights no moves at all, same or "blocks" and "dimmed-zebra". So at first I thought this had something to do with the many->one detection, but it seems to be simpler, we just don't detect a move of 1-line with anything but plain, e.g. this works as expected in all modes and detects the many->one: diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c index f65c172299..f4fda75890 100644 --- a/builtin/add.c +++ b/builtin/add.c @@ -5,4 +5,2 @@ */ -#include "cache.h" -#include "config.h" #include "builtin.h" diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c index 0c55f7f065..52e39924d3 100644 --- a/builtin/branch.c +++ b/builtin/branch.c @@ -7,4 +7,2 @@ -#include "cache.h" -#include "config.h" #include "color.h" diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h index ca36b44ee0..d4146dbf8a 100644 --- a/cache.h +++ b/cache.h @@ -3,2 +3,4 @@ +#include "cache.h" +#include "config.h" #include "git-compat-util.h" So is there some "must be at least two consecutive lines" condition for not-plain, or is something else going on here?