work around buggy S_ISxxx(m) implementations

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 5e86a28f92b38865a767ba569ab453aeda454f8d..d82c0da2cf470dbfe7936762d4645b7509647177 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ core.excludesfile::
        to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's
        home directory.  See linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
+core.askpass::
+       Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
+       ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
+       via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS'
+       environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
+       'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
+       prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
+       command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
+
 core.editor::
        Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
        messages by launching an editor uses the value of this
@@ -804,8 +813,6 @@ diff.mnemonicprefix::
        standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared.  When
        this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps
        the order of the prefixes:
-diff.noprefix::
-       If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
 `git diff`;;
        compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
 `git diff HEAD`;;
@@ -817,6 +824,9 @@ diff.noprefix::
 `git diff --no-index a b`;;
        compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
 
+diff.noprefix::
+       If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix.
+
 diff.renameLimit::
        The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
        detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
@@ -829,7 +839,8 @@ diff.renames::
 diff.ignoreSubmodules::
        Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
        affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff'
-       commands such as 'git diff-files'.
+       commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
+       this setting when reporting uncommitted changes.
 
 diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
        A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
@@ -1248,6 +1259,15 @@ http.noEPSV::
        support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
        environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
 
+http.useragent::
+       The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server.  The default
+       value represents the version of the client git such as git/1.7.1.
+       This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
+       such as Mozilla/4.0.  This may be necessary, for instance, if
+       connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
+       of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
+       Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
+
 i18n.commitEncoding::
        Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; git itself
        does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
@@ -1296,10 +1316,11 @@ interactive.singlekey::
        ignored if portable keystroke input is not available.
 
 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 the
-       following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}.
-       See linkgit:git-log[1].
+       Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command.
+       Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s
+       `\--date` option.  Possible values are `relative`, `local`,
+       `default`, `iso`, `rfc`, and `short`; see linkgit:git-log[1]
+       for details.
 
 log.decorate::
        Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log
@@ -1540,6 +1561,9 @@ rebase.stat::
        Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
        rebase. False by default.
 
+rebase.autosquash::
+       If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
+
 receive.autogc::
        By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
        receiving data from git-push and updating refs.  You can stop
@@ -1634,7 +1658,9 @@ remote.<name>.tagopt::
        Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when
        fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every
        tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
-       branch heads.
+       branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can
+       override this setting. See options \--tags and \--no-tags of
+       linkgit:git-fetch[1].
 
 remote.<name>.vcs::
        Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause git to interact with
@@ -1764,7 +1790,7 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore::
        Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
        submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
        This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule,
-       both settings can be overriden on the command line by using the
+       both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
        "--ignore-submodules" option.
 
 tar.umask::