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This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that
expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
+core.bare::
+ If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no
+ working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
+ number of commands that require a working directory will be
+ disabled, such as gitlink:git-add[1] or gitlink:git-merge[1].
++
+This setting is automatically guessed by gitlink:git-clone[1] or
+gitlink:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a
+repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare =
+false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
+= true).
+
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old
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
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