Allow fast-import frontends to reload the marks table

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9d045d88327e8f949f61f2f8e776e4ad44789ca0..5408dd67d316ce3334f2843267a604f5a4ea044b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
 the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository
 is used to store the information for that repository, and
 `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give
-fallback values for `.git/config` file.
+fallback values for `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
+can be used to store system-wide defaults.
 
 They can be used by both the git plumbing
 and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where
@@ -116,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode::
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.symlinks::
+       If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
+       contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and
+       gitlink:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
+       file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
+       symbolic links. True by default.
+
 core.gitProxy::
        A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
        of establishing direct connection to the remote server when
@@ -192,10 +200,17 @@ core.compression::
        slowest.
 
 core.legacyheaders::
-       A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case
-       you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object
-       database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols
-       count as direct access).
+       A boolean which
+       changes the format of loose objects so that they are more
+       efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git
+       native protocol, since v1.4.2.  However, loose objects
+       written in the new format cannot be read by git older than
+       that version; people fetching from your repository using
+       older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http)
+       will also be affected.
++
+To let git use the new loose object format, you have to
+set core.legacyheaders to false.
 
 core.packedGitWindowSize::
        Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
@@ -333,6 +348,11 @@ format.headers::
        Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
        by mail.  See gitlink:git-format-patch[1].
 
+format.suffix::
+       The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
+       `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
+       include the dot if you want it).
+
 gc.packrefs::
        `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
        default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch
@@ -475,6 +495,10 @@ remote.<name>.uploadpack::
        The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching.  See
        option \--exec of gitlink:git-fetch-pack[1].
 
+remote.<name>.tagopt::
+       Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when fetching
+       from remote <name>
+
 remotes.<group>::
        The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
        <group>".  See gitlink:git-remote[1].