[PATCH 1/3] doc: reword -B option of diff into something sensible
The sentence seemed to miss a verb.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
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Documentation/diff-options.txt | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 09faee3b44..350d0a2fb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -452,14 +452,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
create. This serves two purposes:
+
It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file
-not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with a very
-few lines that happen to match textually as the context, but as a
-single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of
-everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect of the -B
-option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than 30% of the
-original should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total
-rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of
-deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines).
+does not appear as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together
+with a very few lines that happen to match textually as the context,
+but as a single deletion of everything old followed by a single
+insertion of everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect
+of the -B option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than
+30% of the original should remain in the result for Git to consider it
+a total rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series
+of deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines).
+
When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the
source of a rename (usually -M only considers a file that disappeared
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2.24.0
Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>