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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index bf82766a6a..bf3e512921 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -159,6 +159,33 @@ all branches that begin with `foo/`. This is useful if your branches are organized hierarchically and you would like to apply a configuration to all the branches in that hierarchy. +`hasconfig:remote.*.url:`:: + The data that follows this keyword is taken to + be a pattern with standard globbing wildcards and two + additional ones, `**/` and `/**`, that can match multiple + components. The first time this keyword is seen, the rest of + the config files will be scanned for remote URLs (without + applying any values). If there exists at least one remote URL + that matches this pattern, the include condition is met. ++ +Files included by this option (directly or indirectly) are not allowed +to contain remote URLs. ++ +Note that unlike other includeIf conditions, resolving this condition +relies on information that is not yet known at the point of reading the +condition. A typical use case is this option being present as a +system-level or global-level config, and the remote URL being in a +local-level config; hence the need to scan ahead when resolving this +condition. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg problem in which +potentially-included files can affect whether such files are potentially +included, Git breaks the cycle by prohibiting these files from affecting +the resolution of these conditions (thus, prohibiting them from +declaring remote URLs). ++ +As for the naming of this keyword, it is for forwards compatibiliy with +a naming scheme that supports more variable-based include conditions, +but currently Git only supports the exact keyword described above. + A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`: * Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching. @@ -226,6 +253,14 @@ Example ; currently checked out [includeIf "onbranch:foo-branch"] path = foo.inc + +; include only if a remote with the given URL exists (note +; that such a URL may be provided later in a file or in a +; file read after this file is read, as seen in this example) +[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://example.com/**"] + path = foo.inc +[remote "origin"] + url = https://example.com/git ---- Values @@ -262,11 +297,19 @@ color:: colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background) and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces. + -The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, -`blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the -foreground; the second is the background. All the basic colors except -`normal` have a bright variant that can be specified by prefixing the -color with `bright`, like `brightred`. +The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, +`yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan`, `white` and `default`. The first +color given is the foreground; the second is the background. All the +basic colors except `normal` and `default` have a bright variant that can +be specified by prefixing the color with `bright`, like `brightred`. ++ +The color `normal` makes no change to the color. It is the same as an +empty string, but can be used as the foreground color when specifying a +background color alone (for example, "normal red"). ++ +The color `default` explicitly resets the color to the terminal default, +for example to specify a cleared background. Although it varies between +terminals, this is usually not the same as setting to "white black". + Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this). If @@ -280,6 +323,11 @@ The position of any attributes with respect to the colors be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`, `no-ul`, etc). + +The pseudo-attribute `reset` resets all colors and attributes before +applying the specified coloring. For example, `reset green` will result +in a green foreground and default background without any active +attributes. ++ An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used to avoid coloring specific elements without disabling color entirely. + @@ -298,6 +346,15 @@ pathname:: tilde expansion happens to such a string: `~/` is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified user's home directory. ++ +If a path starts with `%(prefix)/`, the remainder is interpreted as a +path relative to Git's "runtime prefix", i.e. relative to the location +where Git itself was installed. For example, `%(prefix)/bin/` refers to +the directory in which the Git executable itself lives. If Git was +compiled without runtime prefix support, the compiled-in prefix will be +substituted instead. In the unlikely event that a literal path needs to +be specified that should _not_ be expanded, it needs to be prefixed by +`./`, like so: `./%(prefix)/bin`. Variables |