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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index a8e0876a2a..23a965eed7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -297,17 +297,24 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare = true). core.worktree:: - Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be - used in combination with repositories found automatically in - a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set). + Set the path to the root of the work tree. This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. It can be - a absolute path or relative path to the directory specified by - --git-dir or GIT_DIR. - Note: If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of + an absolute path or a relative path to the .git directory, + either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically + discovered. + If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified, - the current working directory is regarded as the top directory - of your working tree. + the current working directory is regarded as the root of the + work tree. ++ +Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration +file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory, and its value differs +from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has +core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a +misconfiguration. Running git commands in "/path/to" directory will +still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause +great confusion to the users. core.logAllRefUpdates:: Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file @@ -635,10 +642,10 @@ color.diff.<slot>:: Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag` - (hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines), - `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting - whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as - in color.branch.<slot>. + (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines), + `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` + (highlighting whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be + specified as in color.branch.<slot>. color.grep:: When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or @@ -1461,6 +1468,10 @@ remote.<name>.tagopt:: Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when fetching from remote <name> +remote.<name>.vcs:: + Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause git to interact with + the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper. + remotes.<group>:: The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1]. |