From: Miklos Vajna Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:57:39 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Document that using -M without other diff options is not a good idea Message-ID: <1193929060-6183-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna --- 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