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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-26 13:17:23 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-26 13:17:23 -0700
commite29300d69fb8e003b36f155a5f286d72ee5a557f (patch)
treed22a3ff686090407694d7e87bb3bf9901b3951db /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc' into maint (diff)
parentmingw: remove unnecessary definition (diff)
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Merge branch 'js/windows-dotgit' into maint
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to customize this behaviour. * js/windows-dotgit: mingw: remove unnecessary definition mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
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The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).
+core.hideDotFiles::
+ (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose
+ name starts with a dot as hidden. If 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/`
+ directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The
+ default mode is 'dotGitOnly'.
+
core.ignoreCase::
If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,