From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:13:05 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'jc/conf-var-doc' into maint X-Git-Tag: v2.3.2~15 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/c11c154f429f23f1c30f2aa067ff8bf6c1b982fe?hp=-c Merge branch 'jc/conf-var-doc' into maint Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to the documentation. * jc/conf-var-doc: CodingGuidelines: describe naming rules for configuration variables config.txt: mark deprecated variables more prominently config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated --- c11c154f429f23f1c30f2aa067ff8bf6c1b982fe diff --combined Documentation/config.txt index 04e2a71687,8a76d1dc2a..b22a7a7ff5 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@@ -204,26 -204,13 +204,26 @@@ advice.*: -- core.fileMode:: - If false, the executable bit differences between the index and - the working tree are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. - See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. + Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree + is to be honored. + -The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] -will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the -repository is created. +Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is +marked as executable is checked out, or checks out an +non-executable file with executable bit on. +linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] probe the filesystem +to see if it handles the executable bit correctly +and this variable is automatically set as necessary. ++ +A repository, however, may be on a filesystem that handles +the filemode correctly, and this variable is set to 'true' +when created, but later may be made accessible from another +environment that loses the filemode (e.g. exporting ext4 via +CIFS mount, visiting a Cygwin created repository with +Git for Windows or Eclipse). +In such a case it may be necessary to set this variable to 'false'. +See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. ++ +The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file). core.ignorecase:: If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable @@@ -375,19 -362,14 +375,19 @@@ This is useful for excluding servers in 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 @@@ -528,8 -510,7 +528,8 @@@ core.bigFileThreshold: Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without attempting delta compression. Storing large files without delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the - slight expense of increased disk usage. + slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files + larger than this size are always treated as binary. + Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable for most projects as source code and other text files can still @@@ -683,14 -664,13 +683,13 @@@ core.abbrev: for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long time. - add.ignore-errors:: add.ignoreErrors:: + add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors' - option of linkgit:git-add[1]. Older versions of Git accept only - `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming - convention for configuration variables. Newer versions of Git - honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well. + option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, + as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration + variables. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. @@@ -854,13 -834,7 +853,13 @@@ accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `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). 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. @@@ -907,11 -881,7 +906,11 @@@ color.grep.: `linenumber`;; line number prefix (when using `-n`) `match`;; - matching text + matching text (same as setting `matchContext` and `matchSelected`) +`matchContext`;; + matching text in context lines +`matchSelected`;; + matching text in selected lines `selected`;; non-matching text in selected lines `separator`;; @@@ -1232,7 -1202,7 +1231,7 @@@ gc.autopacklimit: 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:: @@@ -1379,7 -1349,7 +1378,7 @@@ gpg.program: 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. @@@ -1614,7 -1584,7 +1613,7 @@@ http.useragent: Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable. http..*:: - 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: + @@@ -1653,8 -1623,8 +1652,8 @@@ if the URL is `https://user@example.com + 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. @@@ -1816,12 -1786,6 +1815,12 @@@ mergetool.keepTemporaries: preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has exited. Defaults to `false`. +mergetool.writeToTemp:: + Git writes temporary 'BASE', 'LOCAL', and 'REMOTE' versions of + conflicting files in the worktree by default. Git will attempt + to use a temporary directory for these files when set `true`. + Defaults to `false`. + mergetool.prompt:: Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. @@@ -1882,11 -1846,10 +1881,11 @@@ pack.depth: maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50. pack.windowMemory:: - The window memory size limit used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] - when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be - suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no - limit. + The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread + in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for pack window memory when + no limit is given on the command line. The value can be + suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or + set explicitly to 0), there will be no limit. pack.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects @@@ -1960,7 -1923,7 +1959,7 @@@ pack.useBitmaps: true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless you are debugging pack bitmaps. - pack.writebitmaps:: + pack.writebitmaps (deprecated):: This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`. pack.writeBitmapHashCache:: @@@ -2099,25 -2062,6 +2098,25 @@@ receive.autogc: receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop it by setting this variable to false. +receive.certnonceseed:: + By setting this variable to a string, `git receive-pack` + will accept a `git push --signed` and verifies it by using + a "nonce" protected by HMAC using this string as a secret + key. + +receive.certnonceslop:: + When a `git push --signed` sent a push certificate with a + "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same + repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce" + found in the certificate to `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE` to the + hooks (instead of what the receive-pack asked the sending + side to include). This may allow writing checks in + `pre-receive` and `post-receive` a bit easier. Instead of + checking `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP` environment variable + that records by how many seconds the nonce is stale to + decide if they want to accept the certificate, they only + can check `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS` is `OK`. + receive.fsckObjects:: If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a @@@ -2151,13 -2095,6 +2150,13 @@@ receive.denyCurrentBranch: print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no message. Defaults to "refuse". ++ +Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the working +directory (must be clean) if pushing into the current branch. This option is +intended for synchronizing working directories when one side is not easily +accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a live web site, hence the requirement +that the working directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when +developing inside a VM to test and fix code on different Operating Systems. receive.denyNonFastForwards:: If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is @@@ -2297,7 -2234,7 +2296,7 @@@ sendemail.smtpencryption: See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism. - sendemail.smtpssl:: + sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated):: Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpencryption = ssl'. sendemail.smtpsslcertpath:: @@@ -2332,12 -2269,10 +2331,12 @@@ sendemail.smtpserverport: sendemail.smtpserveroption:: sendemail.smtpuser:: sendemail.thread:: +sendemail.transferencoding:: sendemail.validate:: +sendemail.xmailer:: See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. - sendemail.signedoffcc:: + sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated):: Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.signedoffbycc'. showbranch.default::