Re: [PATCH v2] diff: avoid misleading statement about -l option

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
> index 589c1969e4..c593066592 100644
> --- a/diff.c
> +++ b/diff.c
> @@ -6186,7 +6186,7 @@ struct option *add_diff_options(const struct option *opts,
>  			       N_("continue listing the history of a file beyond renames"),
>  			       PARSE_OPT_NOARG, diff_opt_follow),
>  		OPT_INTEGER('l', NULL, &options->rename_limit,
> -			    N_("prevent rename/copy detection if the number of rename/copy targets exceeds given limit")),
> +			    N_("limit to cheap rename/copy detection if the number of rename/copy targets exceeds this value")),

That is still a mouthful and it does not help that rename/copy
appears twice, but that trait is shared with the original, so let's
leave it outside the topic to improve it.  If somebody is inclined
to, he or she can do so later.

Will mark it for 'next'.  Thanks.

>  
>  		OPT_GROUP(N_("Diff algorithm options")),
>  		OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "minimal", options, NULL,
>
> base-commit: 2c78326f810173a4f3aefd8021f1e07575412481