diff --git a/src/pkgcheck/addons/git.py b/src/pkgcheck/addons/git.py
index 669ac262b..5d41ba3b4 100644
--- a/src/pkgcheck/addons/git.py
+++ b/src/pkgcheck/addons/git.py
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ def __init__(self, path, commit_range):
         cmd = shlex.split(self._git_cmd)
         cmd.append(f"--pretty=tformat:%n{'%n'.join(self._format)}")
         cmd.append(commit_range)
+        cmd.extend(("--no-find-copies", "--no-find-copies-harder", "--find-renames"))
 
         self.git_log = GitLog(cmd, self.path)
         # discard the initial newline