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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-01-10 00:52:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-01-10 00:52:04 -0800 |
| commit | 83b10ca25fd49d25561fd6344bd8e40b8987f50a (patch) | |
| tree | 8a57673412f8a5d9ebc1ba59c2101119e8a5bf08 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | daemon: consider only address in kill_some_child() (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'maint-1.6.2' into maint (diff) | |
| download | tgif-83b10ca25fd49d25561fd6344bd8e40b8987f50a.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
base85: Make the code more obvious instead of explaining the non-obvious
base85: encode_85() does not use the decode table
base85 debug code: Fix length byte calculation
Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now
checkout -m: do not try to fall back to --merge from an unborn branch
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 23a965eed7..65dc587f7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ apply.whitespace:: as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. branch.autosetupmerge:: - Tells 'git-branch' and 'git-checkout' to setup new branches + Tells 'git-branch' and 'git-checkout' to set up new branches so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ diff.autorefreshindex:: contents in the work tree match the contents in the index. This option defaults to true. Note that this affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level - 'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'. + 'diff' commands such as 'git-diff-files'. diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not @@ -841,8 +841,8 @@ format.pretty:: format.thread:: The default threading style for 'git-format-patch'. Can be - either a boolean value, `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` - threading makes every mail a reply to the head of the series, + a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading + makes every mail a reply to the head of the series, where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the `\--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order. `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one. @@ -875,15 +875,12 @@ gc.autopacklimit:: default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it. gc.packrefs:: - 'git-gc' does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by - default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch - from the repository. Setting this to `true` lets 'git-gc' - to run `git pack-refs`. Setting this to `false` tells - 'git-gc' never to run `git pack-refs`. The default setting is - `notbare`. Enable it only when you know you do not have to - support such clients. The default setting will change to `true` - at some stage, and setting this to `false` will continue to - prevent `git pack-refs` from being run from 'git-gc'. + Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it + unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb + transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether + 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to "nobare" + to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a + boolean value. The default is `true`. gc.pruneexpire:: When 'git-gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'. |