[PATCH 01/34] Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Apr 3, 2016, 17:23 UTC

Message-ID

<1459704240-28792-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

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

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

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