On 6/30/24 1:38 PM, Sam James wrote: > Hi, > > I've mentioned this on IRC a bunch of times to people but I figure I'll > mention it here in case anyone finds it useful. > > Our use of git doesn't lend itself well to the default mode `git diff` > and friends operate in, as we create many new files rather than solely > changing existing ones. > > git can be coerced into checking for copies (and doing so "harder" too) > but there's no configuration option for this, and it's a pain to > remember. > > You can use the attached patch for dev-vcs/git and then set: > $ git config diff.renames copies-harder > in gentoo.git to make `git log -p`, `git diff`, etc default to this > mode. > > IME, it makes reviewing much easier. Be warned that it does make git log > a bit slower though if the config option is enabled for a repo -- but > maybe only noticeably if your repo is grafted with the pre-2015 CVS history.
Just to add: I think it helped a lot to make log -pC work faster, once I set up `git commit-graph --changed-paths`. -- Eli Schwartz
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