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-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-config.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-config.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-strategies.txt11
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 5ca942ab5e..77caa66c2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ diff.orderFile::
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
- detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`.
+ detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. 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/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index 12b6bbf591..662c2713ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ include::fmt-merge-msg-config.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.
+ 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
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>;;