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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/advice.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/alias.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/blame.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/branch.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/checkout.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/color.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/diff.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/feature.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/fetch.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/gc.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/gpg.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/index.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/interactive.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/log.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/pack.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/remote.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/stash.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/status.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/tag.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/transfer.txt | 2 |
21 files changed, 136 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt index ec4f6ae658..6aaa360202 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ advice.*:: can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false': + -- + fetchShowForcedUpdates:: + Advice shown when linkgit:git-fetch[1] takes a long time + to calculate forced updates after ref updates, or to warn + that the check is disabled. pushUpdateRejected:: Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable 'pushNonFFCurrent', @@ -37,12 +41,19 @@ advice.*:: we can still suggest that the user push to either refs/heads/* or refs/tags/* based on the type of the source object. + statusAheadBehind:: + Shown when linkgit:git-status[1] computes the ahead/behind + counts for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref, + and that calculation takes longer than expected. Will not + appear if `status.aheadBehind` is false or the option + `--no-ahead-behind` is given. statusHints:: Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in the template shown when writing commit messages in linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown - by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. + by linkgit:git-switch[1] or + linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. statusUoption:: Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1] when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked @@ -57,17 +68,21 @@ advice.*:: resolveConflict:: Advice shown by various commands when conflicts prevent the operation from being performed. + sequencerInUse:: + Advice shown when a sequencer command is already in progress. implicitIdentity:: Advice on how to set your identity configuration when your information is guessed from the system username and domain name. detachedHead:: - Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to - move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create - a local branch after the fact. + Advice shown when you used + linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1] + to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to + create a local branch after the fact. checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName:: Advice shown when the argument to - linkgit:git-checkout[1] ambiguously resolves to a + linkgit:git-checkout[1] and linkgit:git-switch[1] + ambiguously resolves to a remote tracking branch on more than one remote in situations where an unambiguous argument would have otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.txt b/Documentation/config/alias.txt index 0b14178314..f1ca739d57 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/alias.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.txt @@ -1,18 +1,28 @@ alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. - after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation - "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid + after defining `alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD`, the invocation + `git last` is equivalent to `git cat-file commit HEAD`. To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them. + +Note that the first word of an alias does not necessarily have to be a +command. It can be a command-line option that will be passed into the +invocation of `git`. In particular, this is useful when used with `-c` +to pass in one-time configurations or `-p` to force pagination. For example, +`loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase` can be defined such that +running `git loud-rebase` would be equivalent to +`git -c commit.verbose=true rebase`. Also, `ps = -p status` would be a +helpful alias since `git ps` would paginate the output of `git status` +where the original command does not. ++ If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining -"alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation -"git new" is equivalent to running the shell command -"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be +`alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD`, the invocation +`git new` is equivalent to running the shell command +`gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD`. Note that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory. -`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix' +`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running `git rev-parse --show-prefix` from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/blame.txt b/Documentation/config/blame.txt index 67b5c1d1e0..9468e8599c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/blame.txt @@ -19,3 +19,19 @@ blame.showEmail:: blame.showRoot:: Do not treat root commits as boundaries in linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false. + +blame.ignoreRevsFile:: + Ignore revisions listed in the file, one unabbreviated object name per + line, in linkgit:git-blame[1]. Whitespace and comments beginning with + `#` are ignored. This option may be repeated multiple times. Empty + file names will reset the list of ignored revisions. This option will + be handled before the command line option `--ignore-revs-file`. + +blame.markUnblamables:: + Mark lines that were changed by an ignored revision that we could not + attribute to another commit with a '*' in the output of + linkgit:git-blame[1]. + +blame.markIgnoredLines:: + Mark lines that were changed by an ignored revision that we attributed to + another commit with a '?' in the output of linkgit:git-blame[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/branch.txt b/Documentation/config/branch.txt index 8f4b3faadd..a592d522a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/branch.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ branch.autoSetupMerge:: - Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches + Tells 'git branch', 'git switch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ branch.autoSetupMerge:: branch. This option defaults to true. branch.autoSetupRebase:: - When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout' + When a new branch is created with 'git branch', 'git switch' or 'git checkout' that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase"). When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true. diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt index c4118fa196..6b646813ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ checkout.defaultRemote:: - When you run 'git checkout <something>' and only have one + When you run 'git checkout <something>' + or 'git switch <something>' and only have one remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon as you have more than one remote with a '<something>' @@ -8,16 +9,10 @@ checkout.defaultRemote:: disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to `origin`. + -Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout -<something>' will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote, +Currently this is used by linkgit:git-switch[1] and +linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout <something>' +or 'git switch <something>' +will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote, and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like commands or functionality in the future. - -checkout.optimizeNewBranch:: - Optimizes the performance of "git checkout -b <new_branch>" when - using sparse-checkout. When set to true, git will not update the - repo based on the current sparse-checkout settings. This means it - will not update the skip-worktree bit in the index nor add/remove - files in the working directory to reflect the current sparse checkout - settings nor will it show the local changes. diff --git a/Documentation/config/color.txt b/Documentation/config/color.txt index 8375596c44..d5daacb13a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/color.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/color.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ color.blame.highlightRecent:: + This setting should be set to a comma-separated list of color and date settings, starting and ending with a color, the dates should be set from oldest to newest. -The metadata will be colored given the colors if the the line was introduced +The metadata will be colored given the colors if the line was introduced before the given timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors. + Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well, e.g. diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index 75538d27e7..852d2ba37a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ 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 @@ -577,7 +579,7 @@ 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:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index 2c4c9ba27a..ff09f1cf73 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ diff.external:: diff.ignoreSubmodules:: Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' - commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors + commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' + and 'git switch' also honor this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to 'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit' and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is @@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ diff.guitool:: include::../mergetools-diff.txt[] diff.indentHeuristic:: - Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics + Set this option to `false` to disable the default heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read. diff.algorithm:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..545522f306 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +feature.*:: + The config settings that start with `feature.` modify the defaults of + a group of other config settings. These groups are created by the Git + developer community as recommended defaults and are subject to change. + In particular, new config options may be added with different defaults. + +feature.experimental:: + Enable config options that are new to Git, and are being considered for + future defaults. Config settings included here may be added or removed + with each release, including minor version updates. These settings may + have unintended interactions since they are so new. Please enable this + setting if you are interested in providing feedback on experimental + features. The new default values are: ++ +* `pack.useSparse=true` uses a new algorithm when constructing a pack-file +which can improve `git push` performance in repos with many files. ++ +* `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by +skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips. + +feature.manyFiles:: + Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the + working directory. With many files, commands such as `git status` and + `git checkout` may be slow and these new defaults improve performance: ++ +* `index.version=4` enables path-prefix compression in the index. ++ +* `core.untrackedCache=true` enables the untracked cache. This setting assumes +that mtime is working on your machine. diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt index cbfad6cdbb..d402110638 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt @@ -59,7 +59,13 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm:: effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one - of its descendants). + of its descendants). If `feature.experimental` is enabled, then this + setting defaults to "skipping". Unknown values will cause 'git fetch' to error out. + See also the `--negotiation-tip` option for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + +fetch.showForcedUpdates:: + Set to false to enable `--no-show-forced-updates` in + linkgit:git-fetch[1] and linkgit:git-pull[1] commands. + Defaults to true. diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt index 02b92b18b5..00ea0a678e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ gc.writeCommitGraph:: If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when linkgit:git-gc[1] is run. When using `git gc --auto` the commit-graph will be updated if housekeeping is - required. Default is false. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] + required. Default is true. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for details. gc.logExpiry:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt index f999f8ea49..cce2c89245 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ gpg.program:: Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached - signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the + signature, "`gpg --verify $signature - <$file`" is run, and the program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be diff --git a/Documentation/config/index.txt b/Documentation/config/index.txt index f181503041..7cb50b37e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/index.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/index.txt @@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ index.threads:: index.version:: Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. + If `feature.manyFiles` is enabled, then the default is 4. diff --git a/Documentation/config/interactive.txt b/Documentation/config/interactive.txt index ad846dd7c9..a2d3c7ec44 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/interactive.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/interactive.txt @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ interactive.singleKey:: In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter). Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of - linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1], + linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], + linkgit:git-restore[1], linkgit:git-commit[1], linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey. diff --git a/Documentation/config/log.txt b/Documentation/config/log.txt index 78d9e4453a..e9e1e397f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/log.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/log.txt @@ -40,4 +40,5 @@ log.showSignature:: log.mailmap:: If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and - linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`. + linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`, otherwise + assume `--no-use-mailmap`. True by default. diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt index 9cdcfa7324..1d66f0c992 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ pack.useSparse:: objects. This can have significant performance benefits when computing a pack to send a small change. However, it is possible that extra objects are added to the pack-file if the included - commits contain certain types of direct renames. + commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is `false` + unless `feature.experimental` is enabled. pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated):: This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`. diff --git a/Documentation/config/remote.txt b/Documentation/config/remote.txt index 6c4cad83a2..a8e6437a90 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/remote.txt @@ -76,3 +76,11 @@ remote.<name>.pruneTags:: + See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + +remote.<name>.promisor:: + When set to true, this remote will be used to fetch promisor + objects. + +remote.<name>.partialclonefilter:: + The filter that will be applied when fetching from this + promisor remote. diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.txt b/Documentation/config/stash.txt index 7710758efb..abc7ef4a3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ stash.useBuiltin:: the built-in rewrite of it in C. + The C rewrite is first included with Git version 2.22 (and Git for Windows -version 2.19). This option serves an an escape hatch to re-enable the +version 2.19). This option serves as an escape hatch to re-enable the legacy version in case any bugs are found in the rewrite. This option and the shell script version of linkgit:git-stash[1] will be removed in some future release. diff --git a/Documentation/config/status.txt b/Documentation/config/status.txt index ed72fa7dae..0fc704ab80 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/status.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/status.txt @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ status.branch:: Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable. +status.aheadBehind:: + Set to true to enable `--ahead-behind` and false to enable + `--no-ahead-behind` by default in linkgit:git-status[1] for + non-porcelain status formats. Defaults to true. + status.displayCommentPrefix:: If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment prefix before each output line (starting with diff --git a/Documentation/config/tag.txt b/Documentation/config/tag.txt index 663663bdec..ef5adb3f42 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/tag.txt @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ tag.sort:: linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the value of this variable will be used as the default. +tag.gpgSign:: + A boolean to specify whether all tags should be GPG signed. + Use of this option when running in an automated script can + result in a large number of tags being signed. It is therefore + convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your gpg passphrase + several times. Note that this option doesn't affects tag signing + behavior enabled by "-u <keyid>" or "--local-user=<keyid>" options. + tar.umask:: This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the diff --git a/Documentation/config/transfer.txt b/Documentation/config/transfer.txt index 4a5dfe2fc1..f5b6245270 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/transfer.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/transfer.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ linkgit:git-receive-pack[1]. On the fetch side, malformed objects will instead be left unreferenced in the repository. + Due to the non-quarantine nature of the `fetch.fsckObjects` -implementation it can not be relied upon to leave the object store +implementation it cannot be relied upon to leave the object store clean like `receive.fsckObjects` can. + As objects are unpacked they're written to the object store, so there |