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[PATCH 07/10] merge-strategies.txt: explain why no-renames might be useful

From: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-03 15:35:35
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

From: Elijah Newren <redacted>

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <redacted>
---
 Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index eb43befac7b..d21dbd1e051 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ no-renormalize;;
 	`merge.renormalize` configuration variable.
 
 no-renames;;
-	Turn off rename detection. This overrides the `merge.renames`
-	configuration variable.
-	See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--no-renames`.
+	Turn off rename detection, which can be computationally
+	expensive.  This overrides the `merge.renames`
+	configuration variable.  See also linkgit:git-diff[1]
+	`--no-renames`.
 
 find-renames[=<n>];;
 	Turn on rename detection, optionally setting the similarity
-- 
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