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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1546833213..552827935a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ boolean:: false;; Boolean false literals are `no`, `off`, `false`, `0` and the empty string. + -When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type +When converting a value to its canonical form using the `--type=bool` type specifier, 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false" (spelled in lowercase). @@ -616,6 +616,24 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs:: This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. +core.alternateRefsCommand:: + When advertising tips of available history from an alternate, use the shell to + execute the specified command instead of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. The + first argument is the absolute path of the alternate. Output must contain one + hex object id per line (i.e., the same as produce by `git for-each-ref + --format='%(objectname)'`). ++ +Note that you cannot generally put `git for-each-ref` directly into the config +value, as it does not take a repository path as an argument (but you can wrap +the command above in a shell script). + +core.alternateRefsPrefixes:: + When listing references from an alternate, list only references that begin + with the given prefix. Prefixes match as if they were given as arguments to + linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1]. To list multiple prefixes, separate them with + whitespace. If `core.alternateRefsCommand` is set, setting + `core.alternateRefsPrefixes` has no effect. + core.bare:: If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no working directory associated with it. If this is the case a @@ -1643,7 +1661,8 @@ gc.writeCommitGraph:: for details. gc.logExpiry:: - If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run + If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` will print + its content and exit with status zero instead of running unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is "1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its value. @@ -2148,6 +2167,13 @@ imap:: The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. +index.threads:: + Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index. + This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines. + Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of + CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or + 'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'. + index.version:: Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. @@ -2995,15 +3021,15 @@ uploadpack.packObjectsHook:: was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for `pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on stdout. - -uploadpack.allowFilter:: - If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial - clone and partial fetch object filtering. + Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from untrusted repositories). +uploadpack.allowFilter:: + If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial + clone and partial fetch object filtering. + uploadpack.allowRefInWant:: If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support the `ref-in-want` feature of the protocol version 2 `fetch` command. This feature |