Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > - this patch probably adds "unsorted tree" to the list of breakages > that would cause us to skip rename detection. I don't know if that's > actually possible in practice (i.e., do we end up sorting the > diffq elsewhere anyway?). I also wondered if it might run afoul of > diffcore_order(), but that is applied after rename detection, so > we're OK.
One of the frontends (I think it was diff-index) couldn't generate sorted output (which is input to diffcore-* machinery) but I think diffq is sorted before getting passed to the diffcore-* machinery in that codepath, so we should be also OK on that front.
