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| author |  Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> | 2018-05-02 16:01:14 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-05-08 16:19:41 +0900 |
| commit | 85b460305ce7ed399c83499851f46c4f870ce280 (patch) | |
| tree | d56e1f9c1c1ab077050a6332365868e39ce5a485 /Documentation | |
| parent | merge: update documentation for {merge,diff}.renameLimit (diff) | |
| download | tgif-85b460305ce7ed399c83499851f46c4f870ce280.tar.xz | |
merge: add merge.renames config setting
Add the ability to control rename detection for merge via a config setting.
This setting behaves the same and defaults to the value of diff.renames but only
applies to merge.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-config.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 11 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt index 48ee3bce77..662c2713ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ merge.renameLimit:: diff.renameLimit. This setting has no effect if rename detection is turned off. +merge.renames:: + Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", + rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename + detection is enabled. Defaults to the value of diff.renames. + merge.renormalize:: Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the repository has changed over time (e.g. earlier commits record diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 4a58aad4b8..aa66cbe41e 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ recursive:: causing mismerges by tests done on actual merge commits taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history. Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving - renames. This is the default merge strategy when - pulling or merging one branch. + renames, but currently cannot make use of detected + copies. This is the default merge strategy when pulling + or merging one branch. + The 'recursive' strategy can take the following options: @@ -84,12 +85,14 @@ no-renormalize;; `merge.renormalize` configuration variable. no-renames;; - Turn off rename detection. + Turn off rename detection. This overrides the `merge.renames` + configuration variable. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--no-renames`. find-renames[=<n>];; Turn on rename detection, optionally setting the similarity - threshold. This is the default. + threshold. This is the default. This overrides the + 'merge.renames' configuration variable. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--find-renames`. rename-threshold=<n>;; |