diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityRenameDetector.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityRenameDetector.java
index 5de7bac112344fe229d0a90145307b04db53a363..fb98df7c9e8ab67f676151149ea5b483d1a8be74 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityRenameDetector.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/diff/SimilarityRenameDetector.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class SimilarityRenameDetector {
 	private long[] matrix;
 
 	/** Score a pair must exceed to be considered a rename. */
-	private int renameScore = 60;
+	private int renameScore = 50;
 
 	/**
 	 * File size threshold (in bytes) for detecting renames. Files larger