From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Document that using -M without other diff options is not a good idea
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:57:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193929060-6183-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
---
I just noticed that I used 'git log -M' in some scripts which is obviously bad.
People should not use that option without other diff options.
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index b1f528a..ed827f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@
Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
-M::
- Detect renames.
+ Detect renames. It's no good using this option if you don't use diff
+ options like `--name-status`, `-p` or `--stat` as it will just slow
+ down the revision walker.
-C::
Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.
--
1.5.3.5
next reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 14:57 Miklos Vajna [this message]
2007-11-01 14:57 ` [PATCH] Include diff options in the git-log manpage Miklos Vajna
2007-11-12 15:37 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-12-04 12:28 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-12-04 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-05 6:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01 15:09 ` [PATCH] Document that using -M without other diff options is not a good idea Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-01 15:24 ` Miklos Vajna
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