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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-attr.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 5 |
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 5abdbaa51c..a7be80d48b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ being queried and <info> can be either: 'set';; when the attribute is defined as true. <value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute. +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 7e3cabc9dd..8e1f7ab7ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any pattern, or that the output hadn't been generated yet.) +Buffering happens as documented under the `GIT_FLUSH` option in +linkgit:git[1]. The caller is responsible for avoiding deadlocks +caused by overfilling an input buffer or reading from an empty output +buffer. + EXIT STATUS ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 65c37c4544..122b33f066 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -771,8 +771,9 @@ for further details. 'GIT_FLUSH':: If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log', - and 'git whatchanged' will force a flush of the output stream - after each commit-oriented record have been flushed. If this + 'git check-attr', 'git check-ignore', and 'git whatchanged' will + force a flush of the output stream after each record have been + flushed. If this variable is set to "0", the output of these commands will be done using completely buffered I/O. If this environment variable is not set, git will choose buffered or record-oriented flushing |