Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: option to specify rename threshold

On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Kevin Ballard wrote:

quoted

After taking a look at this, it raises another question. -B, -M, and
-C all have optional arguments, but the long-form names don't seem
to support that.

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                     if I make it support `git diff
--rename-threshold foo` that would also work, but the name doesn't
seem appropriate without the argument.

Right --- with merge-recursive the argument doesn't need to be
optional, but with git diff it does.

How about

	--detect-renames=<threshold>
	--detect-copies=<threshold>
	--detect-rewrites=<threshold>/<threshold>

Good timing, I just sent out a patch that does almost exactly this, though I went with --break-rewrites instead of --detect-rewrites.

-Kevin Ballard