Re: [GIT PATCH] USB patches for 2.6.17

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 20:50:42 EST




On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Ok, but how? I'm generating the diffstat in my script with:
>
> git diff origin..HEAD | diffstat -p1 >> $TMP_FILE
>
> Is there a better way to see these renames? In playing around with 'git
> diff' I didn't see how to do it, but I'm probably just not looking for
> the right option...

Look at the "diff-options" documentation.

It's "-M" for "Detect renames" (or use -C, which actually detects copies
too, but that will be somewhat more expensive).

That works with any diff output (ie "git log -p -M" will give log output
with patches and rename detection turned on).

Linus
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