Make git ignore rename [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can't. Internally, they will be saved as a deletion and an addition. The display of "rename" will be calculated later and depends on that threshold.

Answer 2

To disable rename detection with TortoiseGit (though as being git-diff option, should apply to git by itself as well) I added the following line to gitconfig, which seems to do the trick (although based on documentation, I don't think it should):

[diff]
  renameLimit = 1