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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-07-28 14:02:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-07-28 14:02:52 -0700 |
| commit | 20cf493fa70faeee54b449ba267598e3b3982edb (patch) | |
| tree | 9639e3f02bbf40815f887b3a346fd3d9a10e9886 /diff-options.txt | |
| parent | 3c27de63e121444e76e7178a4f5bdc73cfccb416 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-20cf493fa70faeee54b449ba267598e3b3982edb.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.32.0-452-g940fe
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diff --git a/diff-options.txt b/diff-options.txt index 32e6dee5a..0aebe8320 100644 --- a/diff-options.txt +++ b/diff-options.txt @@ -588,11 +588,17 @@ 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. + Note that a value of 0 is treated as unlimited. ifndef::git-format-patch[] --diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]:: |