prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
+core.attributesfile::
+ In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
+ '.git/info/attributes', git looks into this file for attributes
+ (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
+ way as for `core.excludesfile`.
+
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
messages by launching an editor uses the value of this
standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When
this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
the order of the prefixes:
-diff.noprefix::
- If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
`git diff`;;
compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
`git diff HEAD`;;
`git diff --no-index a b`;;
compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
+diff.noprefix::
+ If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
+
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.