From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:53:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: option to specify rename threshold
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