On 2008.08.06 10:06:03 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > > > What do I need to enter in /etc/gitconfig to get all commands that > > deal with diffs of some kind to honour renames=copies ? > > $ git grep -A3 diff.renames > config.txt:diff.renames:: > config.txt- Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it > config.txt- will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or > config.txt- "copy", it will detect copies, as well. See subject line ;-) Works for me though. Stephen, probably the source file didn't change in the same commit. In such a case you need --find-copies-harder, and that seems not to be configurable as the default. Björn -- 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