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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 2415d58c03..493ab196fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -364,15 +364,19 @@ This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains. core.ignoreStat:: - If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index - will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the - index. These marked files are then expected to stay unchanged in the - working tree. If you change them you should mark their update manually. - Git will normally not detect the file changes by lstat() calls. - This is useful on systems where those calls are very slow, such as - cifs/Microsoft Windows. - See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. - False by default. + If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have + changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files + which it has updated identically in both the index and working tree. ++ +When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to stage +the modified files explicitly (e.g. see 'Examples' section in +linkgit:git-update-index[1]). +Git will not normally detect changes to those files. ++ +This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as +CIFS/Microsoft Windows. ++ +False by default. core.preferSymlinkRefs:: Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD |