[PATCH] format-patch: clarify --creation-factor=<factor>
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
- Date
- Jul 28, 2022, 17:49 UTC
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- <20220728174953.66964-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com>
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- <xmqqo7x9ch7n.fsf_-_@gitster.g>
The value is not a percentage that ranges from 0 to 100, so stop referring to it as `percent`; instead follow the lead of the `git range-diff` documentation and call it `factor`.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> ---
This is a sibling to Junio's patch[1].
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqo7x9ch7n.fsf_-_@gitster.g/
Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index be797d7a28..e06475abcd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--[no-]encode-email-headers] [--no-notes | --notes[=<ref>]] [--interdiff=<previous>] - [--range-diff=<previous> [--creation-factor=<percent>]] + [--range-diff=<previous> [--creation-factor=<factor>]] [--filename-max-length=<n>] [--progress] [<common diff options>] @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ product of `format-patch` is generated, and they are not passed to the underlying `range-diff` machinery used to generate the cover-letter material (this may change in the future). ---creation-factor=<percent>:: +--creation-factor=<factor>:: Used with `--range-diff`, tweak the heuristic which matches up commits between the previous and current series of patches by adjusting the creation/deletion cost fudge factor. See linkgit:git-range-diff[1])
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