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| author | Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> | 2008-05-30 13:14:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-05-31 13:09:39 -0700 |
| commit | b7f685a754fc7ad313ecf7ad717f3ce35195ff33 (patch) | |
| tree | 520b122476444bfb611de8d882e8c1e58f8ce3c3 /Documentation | |
| parent | d2b3691b61d516a0ad2bf700a2a5d9113ceff0b1 (diff) | |
| download | git-b7f685a754fc7ad313ecf7ad717f3ce35195ff33.tar.gz git-b7f685a754fc7ad313ecf7ad717f3ce35195ff33.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c298dc21c..5331b450e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -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:: |