That will produce an add plus a deletion. Whether or not this is considered a rename is up to git-diff, via the -M flag which specifies a “similarity index”. Si

That will produce an add plus a deletion. Whether or not this is considered a rename is up to git-diff, via the -M flag which specifies a “similarity index”. Side note, this doesn’t work with LFS-tracked files. But, with regular files you can say, e.g. you want the similarity index to be 50%, and then any files that were deleted that match 50% of their contents with another add will be displayed as a rename. So it’s really just a view thing. In the underlying storage, there is no such thing as a rename.