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Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff: make "too many files" rename warning optional

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 4, 2008, 19:20 UTC
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<20080504192015.GA13029@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:10:57PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > This neglects the case where the user specifically does a diff asking
> > for renames, but we turn it off. Maybe when "-M" is specified on the
> > commandline to git-diff, we should set this option as well.
> 
> That sounds sensible.  Like this?

I would have ack'd this, except it seems that the message produces some problems with gitk, which explicitly calls diff-tree with -C (see the message elsewhere in this thread from Ramsay Jones).

-Peff
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 22 of 22 in “warning: too many files, skipping inexact rename detection”
  1. Andrew MortonApr 26, 2008
  2. Jeff KingApr 26, 2008
  3. Andrew MortonApr 26, 2008
  4. Jeff KingApr 26, 2008
  5. 0/3 rename limit improvementsJeff King, Apr 30, 2008
  6. 1/3 add merge.renamelimit config optionJeff King, Apr 30, 2008
  7. Jeff KingApr 30, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2008
  9. Jeff KingMay 4, 2008
  10. 2/3 bump rename limit defaultsJeff King, Apr 30, 2008
  11. 3/3 diff: make "too many files" rename warning optionalJeff King, Apr 30, 2008
  12. Ramsay JonesMay 3, 2008
  13. Jeff KingMay 4, 2008
  14. Paul MackerrasMay 4, 2008
  15. Jeff KingMay 5, 2008
  16. Jeff KingMay 5, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2008
  18. Paul MackerrasMay 12, 2008
  19. Ramsay JonesMay 6, 2008
  20. Ramsay JonesMay 6, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMay 4, 2008

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