Re: [git-users] tell git diff to ignore lines that were moved, but not changed

2017-11-06 Thread Michael
Hmm... My first thought: (Warning: This is more of a "what you should do next", not a "how to solve this now"): Git has no problem with file renames. So if a given block of text, or chapter, was its own file, then git would only show changes in the block rather than re-orders. But then,

[git-users] tell git diff to ignore lines that were moved, but not changed

2017-11-06 Thread Richard Dooling
Hello, I use git to track changes to large book-length text files, so I am constantly moving lines, blocks of lines, even whole chapters around. It would be quite nice if I could do git diff and see only lines that were either changed, added, or deleted, but not the lines that were simply