Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Move VMX handling code out of the driver directory

On 12/21/2010 10:50 AM, Justin Clift wrote: > On 22/12/2010, at 4:40 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > <snip> >> 'git diff' is so awesome with renames :) > > Hmmm.... recently had a problem with it where it *insisted* that one of the 100+ files > in a git repo I'd been messing with was a rename of a different file... even when it wasn't. > (significantly different file contents) > > Didn't find an option to force it to recognise the file *wasn't* a rename, so from memory > just had to leave it with it's incorrect rename entry in history. :( Surprisingly, git doesn't track renames (seriously, there's no metadata in the .git directory that tells you when a file was moved). It merely uses heuristics and a similarity index to guess when a rename exists. There are ways to tighten the similarity index (git diff -M90% instead of git diff -M), as well as disable similarity checking altogether (git diff -l1, and various settings in git config).