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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-01-14 14:01:34 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-01-14 14:01:34 -0800 |
commit | e8acc8e653f506bde001386e7a7b2523b85b6aac (patch) | |
tree | 4c28ea3b7b82c171b41c416f2d2a2a8d0636b910 /config.txt | |
parent | 629edffc595fbc63ec34137cf469c03566f878e5 (diff) | |
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Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.3.0-rc0-42-g563d4
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diff --git a/config.txt b/config.txt index cc887b127..04e2a7168 100644 --- a/config.txt +++ b/config.txt @@ -375,14 +375,19 @@ This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from 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 |