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This might not be the forum for it, but I have a question about this - I thought git was supposed to be pretty smart about detecting renames, but in my experience (on Windows) it never does, and I always have to use `git mv`. What's the deal with this?

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Even if rename detection is enabled, git will only try to identify renames if it wouldn't take too much time (since IIRC it's a O(#files^2) operation).

Thus, there's a config "diff.renameLimit" and "merge.renameLimit" that tells git to only detect renames if less than N files are affected.

I have personally been burned by this before, and there usually is a default value set in most git clients.

See also some discussion at https://stackoverflow.com/a/7831027/1237375 .

It does work, check what happens after you git add it all, not before.

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