From: Marius Storm-Olsen Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:14:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat X-Git-Tag: v1.5.6-rc1~28 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7f685a754fc7ad313ecf7ad717f3ce35195ff33;p=git.git Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat The previous documentation didn't make it clear that the "assume unchanged" was on per file basis, and not a global flag. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c298dc21c..5331b450e 100644 --- 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::