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Re: How should files be moved in the glibc repository
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Nov 28 2016, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Doing `git config --global diff.renames true` might sort this out.
>
> That doesn't change the semantics of the output. With or without this
> setting, git apply will do the same thing. In git terms, renaming a
> file is strictly the same as removing it under the old name and adding
> it under the new name.
I meant it might make `git diff` behave the same as `git diff HEAD`.