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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-18 10:51:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-18 10:51:22 -0800 |
| commit | b7cd0c9b692af7728a1d876a3e4fe760956e00c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e9f11c1d6356dc468d08f41d1ed2fb65d1a161f /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | Git 1.8.1-rc2 (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/pickaxe-textconv' into maint (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index f4f7e250c5..39f2c5074c 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -309,7 +309,11 @@ endif::git-log[] index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the file's size). For example, `-M90%` means git should consider a delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file - hasn't changed. + hasn't changed. Without a `%` sign, the number is to be read as + a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., `-M5` becomes + 0.5, and is thus the same as `-M50%`. Similarly, `-M05` is + the same as `-M5%`. To limit detection to exact renames, use + `-M100%`. -C[<n>]:: --find-copies[=<n>]:: |