When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git,
which is backward compatible with older versions of Git.
+core.protectHFS::
+ If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
+ be considered equivalent to `.git` on an HFS+ filesystem.
+ Defaults to `true` on Mac OS, and `false` elsewhere.
+
+core.protectNTFS::
+ If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
+ cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with
+ 8.3 "short" names.
+ Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere.
+
core.trustctime::
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
+gui.displayuntracked::
+ Determines if linkgit::git-gui[1] shows untracked files
+ in the file list. The default is "true".
+
gui.encoding::
Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
--summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note
that the summary output command will be suppressed for all
submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only
- for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. To
+ for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. The only
+ exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged
+ submodule changes. To
also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use
the --ignore-submodules=dirty command line option or the 'git
submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
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
- modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
+ modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
+ commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
+ to the submodules work tree and
takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.