Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: option to specify rename threshold

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2010, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20100927235355.GG11957@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <FFDB2371-6C96-472C-A650-412546636450@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard wrote:

> After taking a look at this, it raises another question. -B, -M, and
> -C all have optional arguments, but the long-form names don't seem
> to support that.

[...]

>                       if I make it support `git diff
> --rename-threshold foo` that would also work, but the name doesn't
> seem appropriate without the argument.

Right --- with merge-recursive the argument doesn't need to be optional, but with git diff it does.

How about

	--detect-renames=<threshold>
	--detect-copies=<threshold>
	--detect-rewrites=<threshold>/<threshold>

Ciao, Jonathan