summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/git-update-index.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2007-03-05 02:37:29 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2007-03-05 02:37:29 +0000
commitaa83a7dc537213bb55b6764bb7f1cebc0003c55d (patch)
tree7889cc7fbfad7f2a1f4917937b0b0269b63ad45c /git-update-index.txt
parentd4c8e1164662d91e0baedc43da873e5a090cacb0 (diff)
downloadgit-htmldocs-aa83a7dc537213bb55b6764bb7f1cebc0003c55d.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.0.3-268-g3dda
Diffstat (limited to 'git-update-index.txt')
-rw-r--r--git-update-index.txt5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/git-update-index.txt b/git-update-index.txt
index b161c8b32..cd5e014d4 100644
--- a/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/git-update-index.txt
@@ -295,6 +295,11 @@ in the index and the file mode on the filesystem if they differ only on
executable bit. On such an unfortunate filesystem, you may
need to use `git-update-index --chmod=`.
+Quite similarly, if `core.symlinks` configuration variable is set
+to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out
+as plain files, and this command does not modify a recorded file mode
+from symbolic link to regular file.
+
The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable. See
'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above.