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diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index d0e6635fe0..74619a9c03 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -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 @@ -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:: @@ -588,8 +610,14 @@ core.multiPackIndex:: multi-pack-index design document]. 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 |