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authorMarius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>2008-05-30 13:14:24 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-05-31 13:09:39 -0700
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Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat
The previous documentation didn't make it clear that the "assume unchanged" was on per file basis, and not a global flag. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt11
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c298dc21c..5331b450e 100644
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@@ -205,10 +205,13 @@ Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable
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::