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From: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Cc: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] config documentation: some configs are auto-set by git-init
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:07:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1258942050-11423-3-git-send-email-mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258942050-11423-2-git-send-email-mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>

Add documentation for core.ignorecase, and mention git-init
in core.filemode and core.symlinks.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 78ee906..b2ee139 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -131,7 +131,11 @@ advice.*::
 core.fileMode::
 	If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
 	the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
-	See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
+	See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
++
+The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
+will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the
+repository is created.
 
 core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks::
 	This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false,
@@ -144,6 +148,18 @@ core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks::
 	is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's
 	POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode.
 
+core.ignorecase::
+	If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
+	git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
+	like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds
+	"makefile" when git expects "Makefile", git will assume
+	it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as
+	"Makefile".
++
+The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
+will probe and set core.ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository
+is created.
+
 core.trustctime::
 	If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
 	working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time
@@ -223,7 +239,11 @@ core.symlinks::
 	contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and
 	linkgit: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.
+	symbolic links.
++
+The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
+will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository
+is created.
 
 core.gitProxy::
 	A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
-- 
1.6.4.GIT

      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-23  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-23  2:07 [PATCH 0/2] Miscellaneous documentation updates Matthew Ogilvie
2009-11-23  2:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] cvsserver doc: database generally can not be reproduced consistently Matthew Ogilvie
2009-11-23  2:07   ` Matthew Ogilvie [this message]

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