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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-27 09:47:27 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-27 09:47:28 -0800 |
commit | 3e07d2683de55f0e21b13a6724b59bdcd548b5d8 (patch) | |
tree | c176a8b9694174ecc8cc598e1cc267aadf1220df /Documentation/git.txt | |
parent | 27db5a02c73b35fe6b004fca66a824e022cc3c01 (diff) | |
parent | 7ec30aaa5ba2a71287879d7bd9a5c55363ea1bbe (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'mh/maint-ceil-absolute'
An earlier workaround designed to help people who list logical
directories that will not match what getcwd(3) returns in the
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES had an adverse effect when it is slow to
stat and readlink a directory component of an element listed on it.
* mh/maint-ceil-absolute:
Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 0847cdcc6..79aa8cd14 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -678,12 +678,19 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc. The '--namespace' command-line option also sets this value. 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES':: - This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths. - If set, it is a list of directories that Git should not chdir - up into while looking for a repository directory. - It will not exclude the current working directory or - a GIT_DIR set on the command line or in the environment. - (Useful for excluding slow-loading network directories.) + This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths. If + set, it is a list of directories that Git should not chdir up + into while looking for a repository directory (useful for + excluding slow-loading network directories). It will not + exclude the current working directory or a GIT_DIR set on the + command line or in the environment. Normally, Git has to read + the entries in this list and resolve any symlink that + might be present in order to compare them with the current + directory. However, if even this access is slow, you + can add an empty entry to the list to tell Git that the + subsequent entries are not symlinks and needn't be resolved; + e.g., + 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/maybe/symlink::/very/slow/non/symlink'. 'GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM':: When run in a directory that does not have ".git" repository |