Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:00:05 -0400 | From | Jeff King <> | Subject | Re: project wide: git config entry for [diff] renames=true |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:31AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > In the future, please generate a git "move" diff, which makes it easier > > to review, and prove that nothing really changed. It also helps if the > > file is a bit different from what you diffed against, which in my case, > > was true. > > Maybe it'd be possible to add > > [diff] > renames = true > > to the .git/config file. > > but I don't find a mechanism to add anything to the > .git/config and have it be pulled.
There is no such mechanism within git. We've resisted adding one because of the danger of something like:
[diff] external = rm -rf /
diff.renames is probably safe, but any config-sharing mechanism would have to deal with either whitelisting, or providing some mechanism for the puller to review changes before blindly following them.
-Peff
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