diff --git a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/Differ.java b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/Differ.java
index aa67268ac2..c8ed2e6e51 100644
--- a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/Differ.java
+++ b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/Differ.java
@@ -50,11 +50,13 @@ final class Differ implements AutoCloseable {
   private final RevWalk walk;
   private final TreeWalk treeWalk;
   private final RevCommit commit;
+  private final PathFilter pathFilter;
 
-  private Differ(RevCommit commit, RevWalk walk, TreeWalk treeWalk) {
+  private Differ(RevCommit commit, RevWalk walk, TreeWalk treeWalk, PathFilter pathFilter) {
     this.commit = commit;
     this.walk = walk;
     this.treeWalk = treeWalk;
+    this.pathFilter = pathFilter;
   }
 
   static Diff diff(Repository repository, DiffCommandRequest request) throws IOException {
@@ -83,11 +85,11 @@ final class Differ implements AutoCloseable {
     treeWalk.reset();
     treeWalk.setRecursive(true);
 
+    PathFilter pathFilter = null;
     if (Util.isNotEmpty(request.getPath())) {
-      treeWalk.setFilter(PathFilter.create(request.getPath()));
+      pathFilter = PathFilter.create(request.getPath());
     }
 
-
     if (!Strings.isNullOrEmpty(request.getAncestorChangeset())) {
       ObjectId otherRevision = repository.resolve(request.getAncestorChangeset());
       ObjectId ancestorId = GitUtil.computeCommonAncestor(repository, revision, otherRevision);
@@ -107,13 +109,16 @@ final class Differ implements AutoCloseable {
 
     treeWalk.addTree(commit.getTree());
 
-    return new Differ(commit, walk, treeWalk);
+    return new Differ(commit, walk, treeWalk, pathFilter);
   }
 
   private Diff diff(Repository repository) throws IOException {
     DiffFormatter diffFormatter = new DiffFormatter(null);
     diffFormatter.setRepository(repository);
     diffFormatter.setDetectRenames(true);
+    if (pathFilter != null) {
+      diffFormatter.setPathFilter(pathFilter);
+    }
     List<DiffEntry> entries = diffFormatter.scan(
       treeWalk.getTree(0, AbstractTreeIterator.class),
       treeWalk.getTree(1, AbstractTreeIterator.class));
diff --git a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommand.java b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommand.java
index 29c9f81b14..0e851456a7 100644
--- a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommand.java
+++ b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/main/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommand.java
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class GitDiffCommand extends AbstractGitCommand implements DiffCommand {
         formatter.setRepository(repository);
 
         for (DiffEntry e : diff.getEntries()) {
-          if (!e.getOldId().equals(e.getNewId())) {
+          if (!e.getOldId().equals(e.getNewId()) || !e.getNewPath().equals(e.getOldPath())) {
             formatter.format(e);
           }
         }
diff --git a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/test/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommandTest.java b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/test/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommandTest.java
index 042c1f3186..7a9e9f660e 100644
--- a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/test/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommandTest.java
+++ b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/test/java/sonia/scm/repository/spi/GitDiffCommandTest.java
@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@
 
 package sonia.scm.repository.spi;
 
+import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 public class GitDiffCommandTest extends AbstractGitCommandTestBase {
@@ -140,4 +142,19 @@ public class GitDiffCommandTest extends AbstractGitCommandTestBase {
     gitDiffCommand.getDiffResult(diffCommandRequest).accept(output);
     assertEquals(DIFF_FILE_PARTIAL_MERGE, output.toString());
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void diffBetweenTwoBranchesWithMovedFiles() throws IOException {
+    GitDiffCommand gitDiffCommand = new GitDiffCommand(createContext());
+    DiffCommandRequest diffCommandRequest = new DiffCommandRequest();
+    diffCommandRequest.setRevision("rename");
+    ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    gitDiffCommand.getDiffResult(diffCommandRequest).accept(output);
+    assertThat(output.toString())
+      .contains("similarity index 100%")
+      .contains("rename from a.txt")
+      .contains("rename to a-copy.txt")
+      .contains("rename from b.txt")
+      .contains("rename to b-copy.txt");
+  }
 }
diff --git a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/test/resources/sonia/scm/repository/spi/scm-git-spi-test.zip b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/src/test/resources/sonia/scm/repository/spi/scm-git-spi-test.zip
index da166155a7..80483d04d1 100644
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