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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d85563d764..a8759cff80 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. +core.abbrevguard:: + Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show + an abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are + added to the repository over time, a short name that used to be + unique will stop being unique. Git uses this many extra hexdigits + that are more than necessary to make the object name currently + unique, in the hope that its output will stay unique a bit longer. + Defaults to 0. + core.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, @@ -506,6 +515,9 @@ core.whitespace:: part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space` does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return is not a whitespace (not enabled by default). +* `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this + is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when git fixes `tab-in-indent` + errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63. core.fsyncobjectfiles:: This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files. @@ -547,9 +559,13 @@ 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. @@ -594,8 +610,9 @@ branch.autosetupmerge:: this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the - starting point is a remote branch; `always` -- automatic setup is - done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote + starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` -- + automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a + local branch or remote-tracking branch. This option defaults to true. branch.autosetuprebase:: @@ -606,7 +623,7 @@ branch.autosetuprebase:: When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of other local branches. When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of - remote branches. + remote-tracking branches. When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking branches. See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a @@ -673,7 +690,7 @@ color.branch:: color.branch.<slot>:: Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of `current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch), - `remote` (a tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other + `remote` (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other refs). + The value for these configuration variables is a list of colors (at most @@ -701,7 +718,7 @@ color.diff.<slot>:: color.decorate.<slot>:: Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `<slot>` is one of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local - branches, remote tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively. + branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively. color.grep:: When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or @@ -766,7 +783,8 @@ color.status.<slot>:: one of `header` (the header text of the status message), `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed), `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index), - `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), or + `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), + `branch` (the current branch), or `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. @@ -872,6 +890,11 @@ diff.wordRegex:: sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other characters are *ignorable* whitespace. +fetch.recurseSubmodules:: + A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the + default is to not recursively fetch populated sumodules unless + configured otherwise. + fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native transfer is below this @@ -966,7 +989,7 @@ gc.packrefs:: Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether - 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `nobare` + 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare` to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value. The default is `true`. @@ -1095,7 +1118,7 @@ gui.newbranchtemplate:: linkgit:git-gui[1]. gui.pruneduringfetch:: - "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune tracking branches when + "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch. The default value is "false". gui.trustmtime:: @@ -1524,11 +1547,13 @@ pack.packSizeLimit:: supported. pager.<cmd>:: - Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a - particular git subcommand when writing to a tty. If - `\--paginate` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command line, - it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for - all commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`. + If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the + output of a particular git subcommand when writing to a tty. + Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the + pager specified by the value of `pager.<cmd>`. If `\--paginate` + or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command line, it takes + precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all + commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`. pretty.<name>:: Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in @@ -1784,6 +1809,13 @@ submodule.<name>.update:: URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. +submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: + This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this + submodule. It can be overriden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules + command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull". + This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] + file. + submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered |