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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 3d5a8df0cf..7408bb2d34 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -413,6 +413,15 @@ data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). +core.preloadindex:: + Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' ++ +This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially +on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus +relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the +index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing +overlapping IO's. + alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation @@ -572,9 +581,6 @@ color.status.<slot>:: to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. -commit.template:: - Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. - color.ui:: When set to `always`, always use colors in all git commands which are capable of colored output. When false (or `never`), never. When @@ -582,6 +588,9 @@ color.ui:: terminal. When more specific variables of color.* are set, they always take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false. +commit.template:: + Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. + diff.autorefreshindex:: When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. @@ -592,10 +601,6 @@ diff.autorefreshindex:: affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'. -diff.suppress-blank-empty:: - A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space - before each empty output line. Defaults to false. - diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the @@ -630,6 +635,10 @@ diff.renames:: will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well. +diff.suppress-blank-empty:: + A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space + before each empty output line. Defaults to false. + fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native transfer is below this @@ -714,18 +723,6 @@ gc.rerereunresolved:: kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. -rerere.autoupdate:: - When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the - resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using - previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. - -rerere.enabled:: - Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical - conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they - be encountered again. linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by - default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under - `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false. - gitcvs.enabled:: Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. @@ -796,6 +793,14 @@ gui.diffcontext:: Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5". +gui.encoding:: + Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of + file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1]. + It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute + for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). + If this option is not set, the tools default to the + locale encoding. + gui.matchtrackingbranch:: Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should default to tracking remote branches with matching names or @@ -818,6 +823,73 @@ gui.spellingdictionary:: the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned off. +gui.fastcopyblame:: + If true, 'git gui blame' uses '-C' instead of '-C -C' for original + location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge + repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection. + +gui.copyblamethreshold:: + Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location + detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the + linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection. + +gui.blamehistoryctx:: + Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in + linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History + Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this + variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown. + +guitool.<name>.cmd:: + Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item + of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is + mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of + the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of + the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as + 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if + the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty). + +guitool.<name>.needsfile:: + Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees + that 'FILENAME' is not empty. + +guitool.<name>.noconsole:: + Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its + output. + +guitool.<name>.norescan:: + Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool + finishes execution. + +guitool.<name>.confirm:: + Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool. + +guitool.<name>.argprompt:: + Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool + through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an + argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect + if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1', + the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact + value of the variable is used. + +guitool.<name>.revprompt:: + Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the + 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option + is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it. + +guitool.<name>.revunmerged:: + Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog. + This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not + for things like checkout or reset. + +guitool.<name>.title:: + Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default + is the tool name. + +guitool.<name>.prompt:: + Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of + the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'. + The default value includes the actual command. + help.browser:: Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. @@ -893,6 +965,10 @@ i18n.logOutputEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when running 'git-log' and friends. +imap:: + The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described + in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. + instaweb.browser:: Specify the program that will be used to browse your working repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. @@ -928,8 +1004,6 @@ man.viewer:: Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. -include::merge-config.txt[] - man.<tool>.cmd:: Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page @@ -939,13 +1013,7 @@ man.<tool>.path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. -merge.conflictstyle:: - Specify the style in which conflicted hunks are written out to - working tree files upon merge. The default is "merge", which - shows `<<<<<<<` conflict marker, change made by one side, - `=======` marker, change made by the other side, and then - `>>>>>>>` marker. An alternate style, "diff3", adds `|||||||` - marker and the original text before `=======` marker. +include::merge-config.txt[] mergetool.<tool>.path:: Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case @@ -1065,6 +1133,41 @@ pull.octopus:: pull.twohead:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. +receive.fsckObjects:: + If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received + objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a + broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. + Defaults to false. + +receive.unpackLimit:: + If the number of objects received in a push is below this + limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object + files. However if the number of received objects equals or + exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as + a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the + pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, + especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of + `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. + +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.denyCurrentBranch:: + If set to true or "refuse", receive-pack will deny a ref update + to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. + Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD + out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn", + print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to + proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no + message. Defaults to "warn". + +receive.denyNonFastForwards:: + If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is + not a fast forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push, + even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is + set when initializing a shared repository. + remote.<name>.url:: The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or linkgit:git-push[1]. @@ -1114,6 +1217,18 @@ repack.usedeltabaseoffset:: "false" and repack. Access from old git versions over the native protocol are unaffected by this option. +rerere.autoupdate:: + When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the + resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using + previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. + +rerere.enabled:: + Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical + conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they + be encountered again. linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by + default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under + `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false. + showbranch.default:: The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. See linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. @@ -1150,6 +1265,11 @@ tar.umask:: archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and linkgit:git-archive[1]. +transfer.unpackLimit:: + When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are + not set, the value of this variable is used instead. + The default value is 100. + url.<base>.insteadOf:: Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a @@ -1178,50 +1298,6 @@ user.signingkey:: unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports. -imap:: - The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described - in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. - -receive.fsckObjects:: - If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received - objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a - broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. - Defaults to false. - -receive.unpackLimit:: - If the number of objects received in a push is below this - limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object - files. However if the number of received objects equals or - exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as - a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the - pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, - especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of - `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. - -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.denyNonFastForwards:: - If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is - not a fast forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push, - even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is - set when initializing a shared repository. - -receive.denyCurrentBranch:: - If set to true or "refuse", receive-pack will deny a ref update - to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. - Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD - out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn", - print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to - proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no - message. Defaults to "warn". - -transfer.unpackLimit:: - When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are - not set, the value of this variable is used instead. - The default value is 100. - web.browser:: Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1] |