# Our diff algorithm
[diff]
- external = "/usr/local/bin/gnu-diff -u"
+ external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
[branch "devel"]
handling).
core.ignoreStat::
- The working copy files are assumed to stay unchanged 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].
+ 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 copy, 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.
core.preferSymlinkRefs::
does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
+core.fsyncobjectfiles::
+ This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
++
+This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders
+data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use
+journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
+and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
diff.external::
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
- given command. Note: if you want to use an external diff
- program only on a subset of your files, you might want to
- use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
+ given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
+ environment variable. The command is called with parameters
+ as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if
+ you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of
+ your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs
various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
+gitcvs.usecrlfattr
+ If true, the server will look up the `crlf` attribute for
+ files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If `crlf` is set,
+ the '-k' mode will be left blank, so cvs clients will
+ treat it as text. If `crlf` is explicitly unset, the file
+ will be set with '-kb' mode, which supresses any newline munging
+ the client might otherwise do. If `crlf` is not specified,
+ then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattribute[5].
+
gitcvs.allbinary::
- If true, all files are sent to the client in mode '-kb'. This
- causes the client to treat all files as binary files which suppresses
- any newline munging it otherwise might do. A work-around for the
- fact that there is no way yet to set single files to mode '-kb'.
+ This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve
+ the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
+ unresolved files are sent to the client in
+ mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
+ as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
+ otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
+ then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
+ it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'.
gitcvs.dbname::
Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
characters will be replaced with underscores.
-All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be
-specified as 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
+All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
+'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be specified as
+'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
access method.