Commit 21fc4d7d authored by Chris Lamb's avatar Chris Lamb 👀
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Improve documentation for --timeout due to a few misconceptions.

parent 7784c595

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(