Re: [PATCH] diff: avoid misleading statement about -l option

Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <[email protected]> writes:

> From: Elijah Newren <[email protected]>
>
> In commit 6623a528e00b (doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy
> limits, 2021-07-15), the wording around rename limit options and config
> variables were updated to point out that only the quadratic portion of
> rename detection (or "exhaustive portion of rename/copy detection" as
> used in that commit) was limited by these options, because exact rename
> detection and basename-guided rename detection (which both run in time
> linear in the number of files) still run before this limit is checked.
>
> However, the short help message wasn't updated at the time; update it
> too.

However this is an end-user facing message.  Can we make it more
easier to understnad by being less precise?  "limit to exact
rename/copy if ..." or something?
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