Update the documentation to better indicate that the renameLimit setting is ignored if rename detection is turned off via command line options or config settings. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/diff-config.txt | 3 ++- Documentation/merge-config.txt | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 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..48ee3bce77 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ 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.renormalize:: Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the -- 2.17.0.windows.1
