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by agustamir 2170 days ago
> how does Git figure out when you've renamed a file. If you don't grok it, don't list it.

How does git figure it out?

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Percent similarity on display, not on commit.

That second part is actually important from the user's perspective, not as details on the internals: every single new hire we've gotten who is still learning version control expects svn to detect automatically, and has to be told about "svn mv".