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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 38655350f2..6309d89b4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository is used to store the information for that repository, and `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give -fallback values for `.git/config` file. +fallback values for `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` +can be used to store system-wide defaults. They can be used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where @@ -142,6 +143,18 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs:: This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. +core.bare:: + If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no + working directory associated with it. If this is the case a + number of commands that require a working directory will be + disabled, such as gitlink:git-add[1] or gitlink:git-merge[1]. ++ +This setting is automatically guessed by gitlink:git-clone[1] or +gitlink:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a +repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = +false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare += true). + core.logAllRefUpdates:: Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old @@ -180,10 +193,17 @@ core.compression:: slowest. core.legacyheaders:: - A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case - you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object - database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols - count as direct access). + A boolean which + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git + native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects + written in the new format cannot be read by git older than + that version; people fetching from your repository using + older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http) + will also be affected. ++ +To let git use the new loose object format, you have to +set core.legacyheaders to false. core.packedGitWindowSize:: Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a @@ -451,6 +471,10 @@ remote.<name>.push:: The default set of "refspec" for gitlink:git-push[1]. See gitlink:git-push[1]. +remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate:: + If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating + using the remote subcommand of gitlink:git-remote[1]. + remote.<name>.receivepack:: The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option \--exec of gitlink:git-push[1]. @@ -459,6 +483,10 @@ remote.<name>.uploadpack:: The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option \--exec of gitlink:git-fetch-pack[1]. +remotes.<group>:: + The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update + <group>". See gitlink:git-remote[1]. + repack.usedeltabaseoffset:: Allow gitlink:git-repack[1] to create packs that uses delta-base offset. Defaults to false. |