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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 01/34] Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames
Date: Sun,  3 Apr 2016 10:23:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459704240-28792-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> (raw)

From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

The description was misleading, since "set to any boolean value" include
"set to false", and diff.renames=false does not enable basic detection,
but actually disables it. Also, document that diff.renames only affects
Porcelain.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/diff-config.txt | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 6eaa452..cf4a915 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -108,9 +108,13 @@ diff.renameLimit::
 	detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
 
 diff.renames::
-	Tells Git to detect renames.  If set to any boolean value, it
-	will enable basic rename detection.  If set to "copies" or
-	"copy", it will detect copies, as well.
+	Whether and how Git detects renames.  If set to "false",
+	rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
+	detection is enabled.  If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will
+	detect copies, as well.  Defaults to false.  Note that this
+	affects only 'git diff' Porcelain like linkgit:git-diff[1] and
+	linkgit:git-log[1], and not lower level commands such as
+	linkgit:git-diff-files[1].
 
 diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
 	A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
-- 
2.8.0-246-g1783343

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-03 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-03 17:23 Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-04-03 17:23 ` [PATCH 02/34] t4001-diff-rename: wrap file creations in a test Junio C Hamano
2016-04-03 17:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-03 17:25 ` [PATCH 01/34] Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames Junio C Hamano

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