proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
core.ignoreStat::
- If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index
- will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the
- index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the
- working tree, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
- detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems
- where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows.
- See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
- False by default.
+ If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have
+ changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files
+ which it has updated identically in both the index and working tree.
++
+When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to stage
+the modified files explicitly (e.g. see 'Examples' section in
+linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
+Git will not normally detect changes to those files.
++
+This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as
+CIFS/Microsoft Windows.
++
+False by default.
core.preferSymlinkRefs::
Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD
`magenta`, `cyan` and `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`,
`blink` and `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the
second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any,
-doesn't matter.
+doesn't matter. Attributes may be turned off specifically by prefixing
+them with `no` (e.g., `noreverse`, `noul`, etc).
+
Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between
0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all
-terminals may support this).
+terminals may support this). If your terminal supports it, you may also
+specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
color.diff::
Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts.
Defaults to false.
+receive.advertiseatomic::
+ By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
+ capability to its clients. If you don't want to this capability
+ to be advertised, set this variable to false.
+
receive.autogc::
By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop
sendemail.thread::
sendemail.transferencoding::
sendemail.validate::
+sendemail.xmailer::
See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
sendemail.signedoffcc::