Move split_cmdline() to alias.c

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 917ef5b4febaedece798aa4a97e9ebf90ff13d36..6966384cefcb53edb9d74f59139d3b37f849ad23 100644 (file)
--- 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::
@@ -369,6 +372,14 @@ core.whitespace::
   does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
   is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
 
+core.fsyncobjectfiles::
+       This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
++
+This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders
+data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use
+journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
+and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
+
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -523,8 +534,10 @@ color.status.<slot>::
        one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
        `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
        `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
-       or `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git). The values of
-       these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
+       `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), or
+       `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
+       to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in
+       color.branch.<slot>.
 
 commit.template::
        Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
@@ -829,6 +842,12 @@ instaweb.port::
        The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
        linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
 
+log.date::
+       Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date
+       value is similar to using git log's --date option. The value is one of
+       following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}.
+       See linkgit:git-log[1].
+
 log.showroot::
        If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
        This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
@@ -988,10 +1007,6 @@ repack.usedeltabaseoffset::
        Allow linkgit:git-repack[1] to create packs that uses
        delta-base offset.  Defaults to false.
 
-show.difftree::
-       The default linkgit:git-diff-tree[1] arguments to be used
-       for linkgit:git-show[1].
-
 showbranch.default::
        The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
        See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
@@ -1002,6 +1017,25 @@ status.relativePaths::
        relative to the repository root (this was the default for git
        prior to v1.5.4).
 
+status.showUntrackedFiles::
+       By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
+       files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
+       contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
+       only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
+       all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
+       systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
+       the untracked files. Possible values are:
++
+--
+       - 'no'     - Show no untracked files
+       - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories
+       - 'all'    - Shows also individual files in untracked directories.
+--
++
+If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
+This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option
+of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].
+
 tar.umask::
        This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
        tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
@@ -1037,10 +1071,6 @@ user.signingkey::
        unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key
        using any method that gpg supports.
 
-whatchanged.difftree::
-       The default linkgit:git-diff-tree[1] arguments to be used
-       for linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
-
 imap::
        The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
        in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].