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

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index 12b6bbf591ee801e0723f59db0e0abe7dc88ec73..48ee3bce77c28ed5137f9345fd9376f5f43b1bf1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-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