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merge: update documentation for {merge,diff}.renameLimit

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@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ben Peart 7 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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      Documentation/diff-config.txt
  2. 3
      Documentation/merge-config.txt

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Documentation/diff-config.txt

@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ diff.orderFile:: @@ -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",

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Documentation/merge-config.txt

@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ include::fmt-merge-msg-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

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