--- a/mercurial/commands.py Wed Jul 25 22:41:26 2012 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Mon Jul 23 19:03:32 2012 +0200
@@ -190,15 +190,15 @@
``.hgignore``. As with add, these changes take effect at the next
commit.
- Use the -s/--similarity option to detect renamed files. With a
- parameter greater than 0, this compares every removed file with
- every added file and records those similar enough as renames. This
+ Use the -s/--similarity option to detect renamed files. This
option takes a percentage between 0 (disabled) and 100 (files must
- be identical) as its parameter. Detecting renamed files this way
+ be identical) as its parameter. With a parameter greater than 0,
+ this compares every removed file with every added file and records
+ those similar enough as renames. Detecting renamed files this way
can be expensive. After using this option, :hg:`status -C` can be
- used to check which files were identified as moved or renamed.
- If this option is not specified, only renames of identical files
- are detected.
+ used to check which files were identified as moved or renamed. If
+ not specified, -s/--similarity defaults to 100 and only renames of
+ identical files are detected.
Returns 0 if all files are successfully added.
"""