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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-30 01:25:21 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-12-30 01:25:21 -0800 |
commit | 9e7ad090fad725e5f1862f64b07dc15d54bdc5b9 (patch) | |
tree | 68eac0341c001ba82d4a309e0c80b166e0007142 /Documentation | |
parent | Merge branch 'jk/1.7.0-status' (diff) | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maint (diff) | |
download | tgif-9e7ad090fad725e5f1862f64b07dc15d54bdc5b9.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
textconv: stop leaking file descriptors
commit: --cleanup is a message option
git count-objects: handle packs bigger than 4G
t7102: make the test fail if one of its check fails
Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 76173dbc5d..23a965eed7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -297,17 +297,24 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare = true). core.worktree:: - Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be - used in combination with repositories found automatically in - a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set). + Set the path to the root of the work tree. This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. It can be - a absolute path or relative path to the directory specified by - --git-dir or GIT_DIR. - Note: If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of + an absolute path or a relative path to the .git directory, + either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically + discovered. + If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified, - the current working directory is regarded as the top directory - of your working tree. + the current working directory is regarded as the root of the + work tree. ++ +Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration +file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory, and its value differs +from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has +core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a +misconfiguration. Running git commands in "/path/to" directory will +still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause +great confusion to the users. core.logAllRefUpdates:: Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file |