docs: clarify meaning of -M for git-log
As an option to the "diff" family, it is fairly obvious what "detect renames" means. However, for revision traversal, the "-M" option is just included in the long list of options, with no indication that it is about showing renames in diffs versus following renames. Let's make it more explicit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King committed
May 8, 2010 at 00:44 UTC
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@@ -177,7 +177,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
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Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create.
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-M::
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+ifndef::git-log[]
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Detect renames.
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+endif::git-log[]
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+ifdef::git-log[]
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+ If generating diffs, detect and report renames for each commit.
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+ For following files across renames while traversing history, see
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+ `--follow`.
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+endif::git-log[]
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-C::
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Detect copies as well as renames. See also `--find-copies-harder`.