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@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ core.fsmonitor::
avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed.
See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5].
+core.fsmonitorHookVersion::
+ Sets the version of hook that is to be used when calling fsmonitor.
+ There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set,
+ version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1
+ will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine
+ which files have changes since that time but some monitors
+ like watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp.
+ Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return
+ something that can be used to determine what files have changed
+ without race conditions.
+
core.trustctime::
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
@@ -86,7 +97,9 @@ core.untrackedCache::
it will automatically be removed, if set to `false`. Before
setting it to `true`, you should check that mtime is working
properly on your system.
- See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default.
+ See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default, unless
+ `feature.manyFiles` is enabled which sets this setting to
+ `true` by default.
core.checkStat::
When missing or is set to `default`, many fields in the stat
@@ -121,11 +134,14 @@ core.quotePath::
core.eol::
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
- files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
+ files that are marked as text (either by having the `text`
+ attribute set, or by having `text=auto` and Git auto-detecting
+ the contents as text).
Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
native line ending. The default value is `native`. See
linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
- conversion.
+ conversion. Note that this value is ignored if `core.autocrlf`
+ is set to `true` or `input`.
core.safecrlf::
If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when
@@ -383,7 +399,7 @@ the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
- Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
+ Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching base objects
that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the
entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
@@ -411,7 +427,7 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.excludesFile::
Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
- to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
+ to `.gitignore` (per-directory) and `.git/info/exclude`.
Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`.
If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`
is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
@@ -426,8 +442,8 @@ core.askPass::
command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
core.attributesFile::
- In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
- '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
+ In addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) and
+ `.git/info/attributes`, Git looks into this file for attributes
(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not
@@ -435,10 +451,10 @@ core.attributesFile::
core.hooksPath::
By default Git will look for your hooks in the
- '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
- e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
- that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
- in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
+ `$GIT_DIR/hooks` directory. Set this to different path,
+ e.g. `/etc/git/hooks`, and Git will try to find your hooks in
+ that directory, e.g. `/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive` instead of
+ in `$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive`.
+
The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
@@ -554,6 +570,12 @@ core.unsetenvvars::
Defaults to `PERL5LIB` to account for the fact that Git for
Windows insists on using its own Perl interpreter.
+core.restrictinheritedhandles::
+ Windows-only: override whether spawned processes inherit only standard
+ file handles (`stdin`, `stdout` and `stderr`) or all handles. Can be
+ `auto`, `true` or `false`. Defaults to `auto`, which means `true` on
+ Windows 7 and later, and `false` on older Windows versions.
+
core.createObject::
You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation
@@ -574,7 +596,7 @@ the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
core.commitGraph::
If true, then git will read the commit-graph file (if it exists)
- to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to false. See
+ to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to true. See
linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for more information.
core.useReplaceRefs::
@@ -584,12 +606,18 @@ core.useReplaceRefs::
core.multiPackIndex::
Use the multi-pack-index file to track multiple packfiles using a
- single index. See link:technical/multi-pack-index.html[the
- multi-pack-index design document].
+ single index. See linkgit:git-multi-pack-index[1] for more
+ information. Defaults to true.
core.sparseCheckout::
- Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
- linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
+ Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1]
+ for more information.
+
+core.sparseCheckoutCone::
+ Enables the "cone mode" of the sparse checkout feature. When the
+ sparse-checkout file contains a limited set of patterns, then this
+ mode provides significant performance advantages. See
+ linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] for more information.
core.abbrev::
Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If
@@ -597,4 +625,6 @@ core.abbrev::
computed based on the approximate number of packed objects
in your repository, which hopefully is enough for
abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time.
+ If set to "no", no abbreviation is made and the object names
+ are shown in their full length.
The minimum length is 4.