From 6b3020a241e2c0a1eaa6b74a10a796603bb90975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:36:15 -0600 Subject: add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors The "[add] ignore-errors" tweakable introduced by v1.5.6-rc0~30^2 (Add a config option to ignore errors for git-add, 2008-05-12) does not follow the usual convention for naming values in the git configuration file. What convention? Glad you asked. The section name indicates the affected subsystem. The subsection name, if any, indicates which of an unbound set of things to set the value for. The variable name describes the effect of tweaking this knob. The section and variable names can be broken into words using bumpyCaps in documentation as a hint to the reader. These word breaks are not significant at the level of code, since the section and variable names are not case sensitive. The name "add.ignore-errors" includes a dash, meaning a naive configuration file like [add] ignoreErrors does not have any effect. Avoid such confusion by renaming to the more consistent add.ignoreErrors, but keep the old version for backwards compatibility. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Acked-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 8adb55c801..ce9c2509b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -534,9 +534,13 @@ core.sparseCheckout:: linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information. add.ignore-errors:: +add.ignoreErrors:: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors' - option of linkgit:git-add[1]. + option of linkgit:git-add[1]. Older versions of git accept only + `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming + convention for configuration variables. Newer versions of git + honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. -- cgit v1.2.3