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[PATCH] diff: --indent-heuristic is no longer experimental

From
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Date
Oct 29, 2017, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20171029151228.607834-1-cmn@dwim.me>

This heuristic has been the default since 2.14 so we should not confuse our users by saying that it's experimental and off by default.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
---
 Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt | 5 -----
 Documentation/diff-options.txt           | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index d4f3d95505..0000000000
--- a/Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
---indent-heuristic::
---no-indent-heuristic::
-	These are to help debugging and tuning experimental heuristics
-	(which are off by default) that shift diff hunk boundaries to
-	make patches easier to read.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index a88c76741e..dd0dba5b1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
 	Synonym for `-p --raw`.
 endif::git-format-patch[]
 
-include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[]
+--indent-heuristic::
+	Enable the heuristic that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches
+	easier to read. This is the default.
+
+--no-indent-heuristic::
+	Disable the indent heuristic.
 
 --minimal::
 	Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible
-- 
2.15.0.rc2
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