diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/diff.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/merge.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 15 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index 2d3331f55c..d1b5cfa354 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -118,9 +118,10 @@ diff.orderFile:: relative to the top of the working tree. diff.renameLimit:: - The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename - detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. This setting - has no effect if rename detection is turned off. + The number of files to consider in the exhaustive portion of + copy/rename detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option + `-l`. If not set, the default value is currently 400. This + setting has no effect if rename detection is turned off. diff.renames:: Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", diff --git a/Documentation/config/merge.txt b/Documentation/config/merge.txt index 6b66c83eab..7cd6d7883b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/merge.txt @@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ merge.verifySignatures:: include::fmt-merge-msg.txt[] merge.renameLimit:: - The number of files to consider when performing rename detection - during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of - diff.renameLimit. This setting has no effect if rename detection - is turned off. + The number of files to consider in the exhaustive portion of + rename detection during a merge. If not specified, defaults + to the value of diff.renameLimit. If neither + merge.renameLimit nor diff.renameLimit are specified, + currently defaults to 1000. This setting has no effect if + rename detection is turned off. merge.renames:: Whether Git detects renames. If set to "false", rename detection diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 32e6dee5ac..58acfff928 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -588,11 +588,16 @@ When used together with `-B`, omit also the preimage in the deletion part of a delete/create pair. -l<num>:: - The `-M` and `-C` options require O(n^2) processing time where n - is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This - option prevents rename/copy detection from running if - the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified - number. + The `-M` and `-C` options involve some preliminary steps that + can detect subsets of renames/copies cheaply, followed by an + exhaustive fallback portion that compares all remaining + unpaired destinations to all relevant sources. (For renames, + only remaining unpaired sources are relevant; for copies, all + original sources are relevant.) For N sources and + destinations, this exhaustive check is O(N^2). This option + prevents the exhaustive portion of rename/copy detection from + running if the number of source/destination files involved + exceeds the specified number. Defaults to diff.renameLimit. ifndef::git-format-patch[] --diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]:: |