config documentation: some configs are auto-set by git-init
Add documentation for core.ignorecase, and mention git-init in core.filemode and core.symlinks. Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Matthew Ogilvie committed
Nov 22, 2009 at 19:07 UTC
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core.fileMode::
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If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
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the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
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- See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
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+ See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
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+The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
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+will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the
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+repository is created.
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core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks::
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This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false,
@@ -144,6 +148,18 @@ core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks::
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is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's
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POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode.
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+core.ignorecase::
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+ If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
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+ git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
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+ like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds
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+ "makefile" when git expects "Makefile", git will assume
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+ it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as
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+ "Makefile".
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+The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
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+will probe and set core.ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository
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+is created.
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core.trustctime::
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If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
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working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time
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contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and
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linkgit:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
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file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
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- symbolic links. True by default.
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+ symbolic links.
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+The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
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+will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository
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+is created.
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core.gitProxy::
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A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead