Description Ben Mellor 2010-10-10 20:52:27 EDT

Build Identifier: M20100211-1343

Trying to view the history view of a git-controlled resource in the egit history view fails and displays a "Problem Occurred" pop-up. The details in the error pop-up are:

An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
Invalid boolean value: diff.renames=copies

I'm using a gitconfig file that was written for console git operation. The value of diff.renames is not supposed to be limited to boolean values; from the git documentation (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html):

diff.renames
Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well.

I'm not requesting that egit actually support copy detection if it doesn't, but it would be nice if it could just treat "copies" or "copy" as true instead of barfing, since the user is asking for a "superset" of the functionality provided by diff.renames=true.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a git-controlled resource, select Team -> Show in History