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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/alias.txt | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/format.txt | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/tag.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 6 deletions
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/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt index dc77941c48..414a5a8a9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/format.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/format.txt @@ -85,3 +85,18 @@ format.outputDirectory:: format.useAutoBase:: A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of format-patch by default. + +format.notes:: + Provides the default value for the `--notes` option to + format-patch. Accepts a boolean value, or a ref which specifies + where to get notes. If false, format-patch defaults to + `--no-notes`. If true, format-patch defaults to `--notes`. If + set to a non-boolean value, format-patch defaults to + `--notes=<ref>`, where `ref` is the non-boolean value. Defaults + to false. ++ +If one wishes to use the ref `ref/notes/true`, please use that literal +instead. ++ +This configuration can be specified multiple times in order to allow +multiple notes refs to be included. 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 |