[Git][reproducible-builds/diffoscope][master] Improve documentation for --timeout due to a few misconceptions.

Chris Lamb (@lamby) gitlab at salsa.debian.org
Sat Jan 29 16:23:15 UTC 2022



Chris Lamb pushed to branch master at Reproducible Builds / diffoscope


Commits:
21fc4d7d by Chris Lamb at 2022-01-29T08:23:05-08:00
Improve documentation for --timeout due to a few misconceptions.

- - - - -


1 changed file:

- diffoscope/main.py


Changes:

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diffoscope/main.py
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@@ -370,7 +370,9 @@ def create_parser():
         "--timeout",
         metavar="SECONDS",
         type=int,
-        help="Best-effort attempt at a timeout in seconds. (default: no timeout) [experimental]",
+        help="Best-effort attempt at a global timeout in seconds. If enabled, "
+        "diffoscope will not recurse into any further sub-archives after X "
+        "seconds of total execution time. (default: no timeout) [experimental]",
         default=float("inf"),
     )
     group3.add_argument(



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