How to handle renamed files?

[MansMeg]

The sampler does not really work when the edit is renaming files rather than changing within them. Any thought how to solve this?

[ninpnin]

Please give a more specific example so we can discuss

[MansMeg]

I have a file, say, file A1.xml, that should be renamed to B1.xml. I renamed the file and committed it to git.

Similarly, I have files C1.xml ... C10.xml that should be removed (for different reasons). I remove them and commit to Git.

In both cases, there is no change in the file as such. Instead, it's at the "file-level" where the change occurs and I want to sample that.

[ninpnin]

I understand that much. I need an example of a legitimate use case of renaming files.

[MansMeg]

They are incorrect, for example.

[ninpnin]

If the whole thing consists of renames, you can just take git diff --stat between the branches, and you'll see that. If it's a lot of files, we can take a sample.

Example diff stat:

[...]
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0118.xml => prot-1867--ak--0118.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0119.xml => prot-1867--ak--0119.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0121.xml => prot-1867--ak--0121.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0122.xml => prot-1867--ak--0122.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0123.xml => prot-1867--ak--0123.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0124.xml => prot-1867--ak--0124.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0125.xml => prot-1867--ak--0125.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0126.xml => prot-1867--ak--0126.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0128.xml => prot-1867--ak--0128.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0129.xml => prot-1867--ak--0129.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0130.xml => prot-1867--ak--0130.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0131.xml => prot-1867--ak--0131.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0202.xml => prot-1867--ak--0202.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0204.xml => prot-1867--ak--0204.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0206.xml => prot-1867--ak--0206.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0209.xml => prot-1867--ak--0209.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0213.xml => prot-1867--ak--0213.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0216.xml => prot-1867--ak--0216.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0220.xml => prot-1867--ak--0220.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0223.xml => prot-1867--ak--0223.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0227.xml => prot-1867--ak--0227.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0228.xml => prot-1867--ak--0228.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0302.xml => prot-1867--ak--0302.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0304.xml => prot-1867--ak--0304.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0306.xml => prot-1867--ak--0306.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0307.xml => prot-1867--ak--0307.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0309.xml => prot-1867--ak--0309.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0311.xml => prot-1867--ak--0311.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0313.xml => prot-1867--ak--0313.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0314.xml => prot-1867--ak--0314.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0316.xml => prot-1867--ak--0316.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0318.xml => prot-1867--ak--0318.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0319.xml => prot-1867--ak--0319.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0320.xml => prot-1867--ak--0320.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0322.xml => prot-1867--ak--0322.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0326.xml => prot-1867--ak--0326.jpeg} |   0
 data/1867/{prot-1867--ak--0327.xml => prot-1867--ak--0327.jpeg} |   0
[...]