"Andrew Arnott" <andrewarnott@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm refactoring a library including renaming both files and > directories. A few lines of each file are also changed, but they are > substantially unchanged in content. I've done a git add to put all my > changes into the index, but a git status shows that git only detected > a few of the renames... most of them are delete-add operations. Is > there anything I can do to help git recognize the rename so that > history is preserved across this commit? There is no need to do anything at commit time. After making the commit, you can look at it with lower similarity threashold, e.g. git show --stat -M1 HEAD The default behaviour IIRC corresponds to -M5 (that is 50%). -- 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
