The sentence seemed to miss a verb. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 09faee3b44..350d0a2fb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -452,14 +452,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] create. This serves two purposes: + It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file -not as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with a very -few lines that happen to match textually as the context, but as a -single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of -everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect of the -B -option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than 30% of the -original should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total -rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of -deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines). +does not appear as a series of deletion and insertion mixed together +with a very few lines that happen to match textually as the context, +but as a single deletion of everything old followed by a single +insertion of everything new, and the number `m` controls this aspect +of the -B option (defaults to 60%). `-B/70%` specifies that less than +30% of the original should remain in the result for Git to consider it +a total rewrite (i.e. otherwise the resulting patch will be a series +of deletion and insertion mixed together with context lines). + When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the source of a rename (usually -M only considers a file that disappeared -- 2.24.0
