From: Elijah Newren Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2023 04:38:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: implement config.diff.renames=copies-harder Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:06 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Elijah Newren writes: > > >> > We probably don't want to copy all three of those sentences here, but > >> > I think we need to make sure users can find them, thus my suggestion > >> > to reference the `--find-copies-harder` option to git-diff so that > >> > affected users can get the info they need to choose. > >> > >> "in addition to paths that are different, will look for more copies > >> even in unmodified paths" then? > > > > That's much better. I still slightly prefer referencing > > `--find-copies-harder` so that there's a link between "copies-harder" > > and `--find-copies-harder`; but this version would also be fine. > > Oh, I didn't mean "use this rewrite and do not make any external > reference". More like "external reference is a good idea and > necessary to help motivated readers, but we should give enough > information inline, and I think this level of details would be > sufficient". Ah, gotcha. Yeah, this sounds good.