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@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ any of those replacements occurred.
the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does.
Omitting the `--submodule` option or specifying `--submodule=short`,
uses the 'short' format. This format just shows the names of the commits
- at the beginning and end of the range.
+ at the beginning and end of the range. Can be tweaked via the
+ `diff.submodule` configuration variable.
--color[=<when>]::
Show colored diff.
@@ -308,7 +309,11 @@ endif::git-log[]
index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the
file's size). For example, `-M90%` means git should consider a
delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file
- hasn't changed.
+ hasn't changed. Without a `%` sign, the number is to be read as
+ a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., `-M5` becomes
+ 0.5, and is thus the same as `-M50%`. Similarly, `-M05` is
+ the same as `-M5%`. To limit detection to exact renames, use
+ `-M100%`.
-C[<n>]::
--find-copies[=<n>]::