On Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 2:27 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 26 2018, Andrea Stacchiotti wrote:
>
> > I'm very sorry, I indeed forgot the `diff.renames=copies`.
> >
> > The following script can reproduce the bug even with a blank config:
Thanks for the bug report and the simple testcase.
> > ---------------------
> >
> > # Make a test repo
> > git init testrepo
> > cd testrepo
> > git config user.name A
> > git config user.email B
> > git config diff.renames copies
> >
> > # Add a file called orig
> > echo 'a' > orig
> > git add orig
> > git commit -m'orig'
> >
> > # Copy orig in new and modify orig
> > cp orig new
> > echo 'b' > orig
> >
> > # add -N and then commit trigger the bug
> > git add -N new
> > git commit
> >
> > # Cleanup
> > cd ..
> > rm -rf testrepo
>
> Thanks. Bisecting shows that the bug is in dc6b1d92ca ("wt-status: use
> settings from git_diff_ui_config", 2018-05-04) first released with
> 2.18.0.
The bisect is slightly misleading; the bug was introduced in 2.17.0
for renames, and when copy detection became a thing in 2.18.0 it also
incidentally would trigger with copies. I'll post a patch soon.
