Re: project wide: git config entry for [diff] renames=true

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 14:00 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:31AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 17:03 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > > In the future, please generate a git "move" diff, which makes it easier
> > > to review, and prove that nothing really changed.  It also helps if the
> > > file is a bit different from what you diffed against, which in my case,
> > > was true.
> > 
> > Maybe it'd be possible to add 
> > 
> > [diff]
> > 	renames = true
> > 
> > to the .git/config file.
> > 
> > but I don't find a mechanism to add anything to the
> > .git/config and have it be pulled.
> 
> There is no such mechanism within git. We've resisted adding one because
> of the danger of something like:
> 
>   [diff]
>     external = rm -rf /
> 
> diff.renames is probably safe, but any config-sharing mechanism would
> have to deal with either whitelisting, or providing some mechanism for
> the puller to review changes before blindly following them.

Another mechanism might be to add a repository
top level .gitconfig and add whatever to that.