Re: [PATCH 5/5] diff: activate diff.renames by default

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 1acd203..fdf5a79 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ diff.renames::
 	Whether and how Git detects renames.  If set to "false",
 	rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
 	detection is enable.  If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will
-	detect copies, as well.  Defaults to false.
+	detect copies, as well.  Defaults to true.

I wonder if we need to talk about plumbing versus porcelain here, as it
does not default to true for diff-tree, for example. But I guess that is
already the case (even setting it to true yourself does not affect
diff-tree).

Yes, it was already the case. But it doesn't harm to document it while
we're there. I've added this in v2:

        Note that this
	affects only 'git diff' Porcelain like linkgit:git-diff[1] and
	linkgit:git-log[1], and not lower level commands such as
	linkgit:git-diff-files[1].

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/