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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam James via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,  Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: implement config.diff.renames=copies-harder
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:06:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv8ac7utk.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEgxKn3QvJQ+6L3Z1RN1im=c3dfApLRCrQqum_Yim44Gw@mail.gmail.com> (Elijah Newren's message of "Tue, 7 Nov 2023 19:30:09 -0800")

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

>> > We probably don't want to copy all three of those sentences here, but
>> > I think we need to make sure users can find them, thus my suggestion
>> > to reference the `--find-copies-harder` option to git-diff so that
>> > affected users can get the info they need to choose.
>>
>> "in addition to paths that are different, will look for more copies
>> even in unmodified paths" then?
>
> That's much better.  I still slightly prefer referencing
> `--find-copies-harder` so that there's a link between "copies-harder"
> and `--find-copies-harder`; but this version would also be fine.

Oh, I didn't mean "use this rewrite and do not make any external
reference".  More like "external reference is a good idea and
necessary to help motivated readers, but we should give enough
information inline, and I think this level of details would be
sufficient".

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-08  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-03 11:25 [PATCH] diff: implement config.diff.renames=copies-harder Sam James via GitGitGadget
2023-11-07  2:45 ` Elijah Newren
2023-11-07  3:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-11-07 17:19     ` Elijah Newren
2023-11-08  1:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-11-08  3:30         ` Elijah Newren
2023-11-08  4:06           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-11-08  4:38             ` Elijah Newren
2024-03-11 21:42 ` Sam James

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