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Diff should only show changes in renamed file

See original GitHub issue

The diff view shows all lines as new, in case of a renamed file. Only changes between the old and the new files should be shown.

It looks as though this might have been fixed in the past (#495), but I am using v1.0.11 and can reproduce this.

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shiftkeycommented, Jan 31, 2018

@vp2177 @j-f1 I’ve got a fix in for the history view in #3892 but detecting renames in the working directory depends on the blobs being staged in the index, and we’ve already found some corner cases about this which are mentioned here.

At this point we’ll display the rename if both files are staged outside Desktop:

If they’re unstaged (or the new file is untracked) our behaviour mirrors Git:

Please open a fresh issue if you have feelings about this experience, so we can track this.

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shiftkeycommented, Dec 26, 2017

@j-f1 unstaging the whole file is relatively easy. Unstaging a specific hunk or line is where things get really problematic. There might be some part of the Git plumbing that you can do this in, but I’ve not looked for it.

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