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diff across a rename boundary? [message #900080]

Fri, 03 August 2012 16:17

Eclipse User

By setting the right preferences I can get EGit to show me the history of a file that follows renames. But if I then attempt to do any kind of comparison of the current version against one of the versions on the other side of a rename boundary, I get nothing meaningful: the Eclipse diff display shows the working version in the left and nothing in the right.

Similarly if I try to compare two old versions against one another (old as in on the other side of the rename boundary) the diff display shows nothing at all.

Is this a known limitation of EGit/JGit?

Fwiw I can get diffs across rename boundaries in IntelliJ IDEA, which is backed by command-line Git. So I know it's possible in principle to do this.

EGit 2.1.0.201208012223
Eclipse Juno
Max OS X 10.8

Addendum: in the specific example I'm looking at, the directory was renamed, not the file. I don't know if that's relevant or not. Basically EGit diff works on files in this directory only if both revisions are at or after the directory rename. If either revision is before the directory rename, the diff display shows nothing useful.

[Updated on: Sat, 04 August 2012 08:20] by Moderator

Re: diff across a rename boundary? [message #900771 is a reply to message #900080]

Wed, 08 August 2012 08:39

Eclipse User

So am I doing something wrong here, or is this feature not supported yet?

Re: diff across a rename boundary? [message #902389 is a reply to message #900771]

Fri, 17 August 2012 08:33

Eclipse User

There is an open bug for this: (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=374722).

There is even a patch proposed on gerrit (https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/5391/), but it still has issues. Maybe somebody has time to continue working on that.

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