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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.1] Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:18:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqoab4odq8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456421878-443-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:37:58 +0100")

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr> writes:

> 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>
> ---
> Oops, trivial fix for typo noticed by Felipe. I'm resending just this
> one in case Junio wants to pick the latest version but I can obviously
> resend the whole if needed.

Heh, I guess people independently spotted the same typo nearly
simultaneously ;-)

I think I got this fixed locally (and adjusted the last one to
match).  Thanks.


>
>  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..b5e9bda 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

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-25 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-23 17:44 [PATCH 0/5] activate diff.renames by default Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 1/5] Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames Matthieu Moy
2016-02-24 10:27   ` Jeff King
2016-02-25 17:27   ` Felipe Gonçalves Assis
2016-02-25 17:34     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 2/5] t4001-diff-rename: wrap file creations in a test Matthieu Moy
2016-02-24 10:25   ` Jeff King
2016-02-24 13:16     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 3/5] t: add tests for diff.renames (true/false/unset) Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 4/5] log: introduce init_log_defaults() Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 17:44 ` [PATCH 5/5] diff: activate diff.renames by default Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 21:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23 21:11     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-24 10:42   ` Jeff King
2016-02-25  8:54     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 19:17 ` [PATCH 0/5] " Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23 20:46   ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-23 21:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-25  8:59 ` [PATCH v2 " Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25 17:37     ` [PATCH v2.1] " Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25 18:18       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-02-25 17:53     ` [PATCH v2 1/5] " Junio C Hamano
2016-02-25  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] t4001-diff-rename: wrap file creations in a test Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] t: add tests for diff.renames (true/false/unset) Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] log: introduce init_log_defaults() Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25 19:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-25  8:59   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] diff: activate diff.renames by default Matthieu Moy
2016-02-25 17:52     ` Junio C Hamano

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