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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bbcd25ae05..cb8eff233e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -399,7 +399,12 @@ if ($chk_branch) {
 	my $num_patches = @patches;
 	for my $hash (@patches) {
 		my $FILE;
-		open($FILE, '-|', "git", "show", "--patch-with-stat", $hash) ||
+		open($FILE, '-|', "git",
+                     "-c", "diff.renamelimit=0",
+                     "-c", "diff.renames=True",
+                     "-c", "diff.algorithm=histogram",
+                     "show",
+                     "--patch-with-stat", $hash) ||
 			die "$P: git show $hash - $!\n";
 		while (<$FILE>) {
 			chomp;