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.
- quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them.
+ A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them.
+
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
gc.autodetach::
- Make `git gc --auto` return immediately andrun in background
+ Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
if the system supports it. Default is true.
gc.packrefs::
same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
signature, "gpg --verify $file - <$signature" 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
+ code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
standard input of "gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be
signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
standard output.
Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
http.<url>.*::
- Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some urls.
+ Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is
compared to that of the URL, in the following order:
+
+
All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part,
if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that
-equivalent urls that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
-Environment variable settings always override any matches. The urls that are
+equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
+Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs
visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
- all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
+ the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
the untracked files. Possible values are:
+