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@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ advice.*::
Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
your information is guessed from the system username and
domain name. Default: true.
+
+ detachedHead::
+ Advice shown when you used linkgit::git-checkout[1] to
+ move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
+ a local branch after the fact. Default: true.
--
core.fileMode::
@@ -417,6 +422,20 @@ You probably do not need to adjust this value.
+
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
+core.bigFileThreshold::
+ Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
+ attempting delta compression. Storing large files without
+ delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
+ slight expense of increased disk usage.
++
+Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
+for most projects as source code and other text files can still
+be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
++
+Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
++
+Currently only linkgit:git-fast-import[1] honors this setting.
+
core.excludesfile::
In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
'.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
@@ -536,6 +555,13 @@ it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
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
+ by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line.
+ See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
+
apply.ignorewhitespace::
When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in
whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change'
@@ -666,9 +692,7 @@ color.grep::
color.grep.match::
Use customized color for matches. The value of this variable
- may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. It is passed using
- the environment variables 'GREP_COLOR' and 'GREP_COLORS' when
- calling an external 'grep'.
+ may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.interactive::
When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts
@@ -716,7 +740,7 @@ color.ui::
terminal. When more specific variables of color.* are set, they always
take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false.
-commit.status
+commit.status::
A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the
commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit
message. Defaults to true.
@@ -1186,6 +1210,10 @@ imap::
The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
+init.templatedir::
+ Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
+ (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
+
instaweb.browser::
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
@@ -1354,10 +1382,13 @@ you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
the `{asterisk}.idx` file.
pack.packSizeLimit::
- The default maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
- packing to a file, i.e. the git:// protocol is unaffected. It
- can be overridden by the `\--max-pack-size` option of
- linkgit:git-repack[1].
+ The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
+ packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol
+ is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `\--max-pack-size`
+ option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. The minimum size allowed is
+ limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited.
+ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are
+ supported.
pager.<cmd>::
Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a