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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index a043d55459..e6d74e6ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ advice.*:: when writing commit messages. Default: true. commitBeforeMerge:: Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to - merge to avoid overwritting local changes. + merge to avoid overwriting local changes. Default: true. resolveConflict:: Advices shown by various commands when conflicts @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.deltaBaseCacheLimit:: Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects - that multiple deltafied objects reference. By storing the + that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base objects multiple times. @@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ core.excludesfile:: to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's home directory. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. +core.askpass:: + Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively + ask for a password can be told to use an external program given + via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS' + environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the + 'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password + prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as + command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. + core.attributesfile:: In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and '.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes @@ -569,7 +578,7 @@ not necessarily be the current directory. am.keepcr:: If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will - not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overrriden + not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line. See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]. @@ -810,8 +819,6 @@ diff.mnemonicprefix:: standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps the order of the prefixes: -diff.noprefix:: - If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. `git diff`;; compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree; `git diff HEAD`;; @@ -823,6 +830,9 @@ diff.noprefix:: `git diff --no-index a b`;; compares two non-git things (1) and (2). +diff.noprefix:: + If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. + diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'. @@ -832,6 +842,12 @@ diff.renames:: will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well. +diff.ignoreSubmodules:: + Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this + affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' + commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors + this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. + diff.suppressBlankEmpty:: A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty output line. Defaults to false. @@ -1008,7 +1024,7 @@ gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If the attributes force git to treat a file as text, - the '-k' mode will be left blank so cvs clients will + the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow @@ -1249,6 +1265,15 @@ http.noEPSV:: support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV' environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV). +http.useragent:: + The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default + value represents the version of the client git such as git/1.7.1. + This option allows you to override this value to a more common value + such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if + connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set + of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1). + Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable. + i18n.commitEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; git itself does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when @@ -1281,7 +1306,9 @@ instaweb.local:: be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1). instaweb.modulepath:: - The module path for an apache httpd used by linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. + The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use + instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd + is Apache. instaweb.port:: The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See @@ -1295,10 +1322,11 @@ interactive.singlekey:: ignored if portable keystroke input is not available. log.date:: - Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date - value is similar to using 'git log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the - following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}. - See linkgit:git-log[1]. + Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command. + Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s + `\--date` option. Possible values are `relative`, `local`, + `default`, `iso`, `rfc`, and `short`; see linkgit:git-log[1] + for details. log.decorate:: Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log @@ -1539,6 +1567,9 @@ rebase.stat:: Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. False by default. +rebase.autosquash:: + If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. + receive.autogc:: By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop @@ -1564,6 +1595,10 @@ receive.denyDeletes:: If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push. +receive.denyDeleteCurrent:: + If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that + deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. + receive.denyCurrentBranch:: If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. @@ -1629,7 +1664,9 @@ remote.<name>.tagopt:: Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote - branch heads. + branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can + override this setting. See options \--tags and \--no-tags of + linkgit:git-fetch[1]. remote.<name>.vcs:: Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause git to interact with @@ -1749,6 +1786,19 @@ submodule.<name>.update:: URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. +submodule.<name>.ignore:: + Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show + a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered + modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and + takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit + recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally + let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. + Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows + submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed. + This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule, + both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the + "--ignore-submodules" option. + tar.umask:: This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the |