How to do a git diff on moved/renamed file?

Question

I moved a file using git mv. Now I would like to do a diff on the new file to compare it with the old file (with the old, now non-existent name).

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Answer 1

simply run git diff without any arguments, or git diff -- newfilename. git is smart enough to compare the right files/contents (i.e. original content before rename with altered content after rename)