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-rw-r--r--plugins/sonar-cpd-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/cpd/CpdPlugin.java5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/plugins/sonar-cpd-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/cpd/CpdPlugin.java b/plugins/sonar-cpd-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/cpd/CpdPlugin.java
index defa9fe260e..9b922e17f20 100644
--- a/plugins/sonar-cpd-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/cpd/CpdPlugin.java
+++ b/plugins/sonar-cpd-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/cpd/CpdPlugin.java
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ public final class CpdPlugin extends SonarPlugin {
PropertyDefinition.builder(CoreProperties.CPD_CROSS_PROJECT)
.defaultValue(CoreProperties.CPD_CROSS_RPOJECT_DEFAULT_VALUE + "")
.name("Cross project duplication detection")
- .description("SonarQube supports the detection of cross project duplications. Activating this property will slightly increase each SonarQube analysis time.")
+ .description("By default, SonarQube detects duplications at sub-project level. This means that a block "
+ + "duplicated on two sub-projects of the same project won't be reported. Setting this parameter to \"true\" "
+ + "allows to detect duplicates across sub-projects and more generally across projects. Note that activating "
+ + "this property will slightly increase each SonarQube analysis time.")
.onQualifiers(Qualifiers.PROJECT, Qualifiers.MODULE)
.category(CoreProperties.CATEGORY_GENERAL)
.subCategory(CoreProperties.SUBCATEGORY_DUPLICATIONS)