renamed/moved file in diff view?

[daviehh]

When files are just moved/renamed, in the main view it's shown properly as just rename, but after pressing enter on the commit, or enter the diff view, the files would show up twice as added/removed, how do I also force these to show as renames in the diff view? Thanks!

[stefanhaller]

Good question. I think we do this on purpose so that you have more flexibility when working with custom patches (e.g. you could add only the removal of the old file to a custom patch). Not sure that's a strong reason, since we don't do this in the Files panel either. But I'm pretty sure we would have to do some work to our custom patch logic so that it can deal with renamed files if we were to change this.

Tagging @jesseduffield in case he remembers more about this. For the record, the --no-renames flag was added in 058bcdd (that was in v0.26.1).