https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2044

When files are very similar, git will copy an existing
file to a new location and then apply differences.  This
is operation identified in the diff with 'copy from' and
'copy to' lines that need to be ignored.

Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
---
 BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py b/BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py
index 4f2ef81ae7..6b07241bfe 100755
--- a/BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Scripts/PatchCheck.py
@@ -331,6 +331,8 @@ class GitDiffCheck:
         'old mode ',
         'new mode ',
         'similarity index ',
+        'copy from ',
+        'copy to ',
         'rename ',
         )
 
-- 
2.21.0.windows.1


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