From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [PATCH 1/3] config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:33:11 -0800 Message-ID: <1422484393-4414-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> References: <1422484393-4414-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 29 02:12:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGdev-0002eJ-GF for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 02:12:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753169AbbA2BMd (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:12:33 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:64103 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751702AbbA2BM1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:12:27 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B4533A8D; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:33:17 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; s=sasl; bh=yLvZ wKCt5AuRGbEDhnruBlFLbMU=; b=OvX9W0S/PVQs8slFfMRktA0mhRNBcqM97GLF iCASFVfhLo+KGiy6DtmK8X0X57Vj3RHOdYVWNo6BCe7Xk9RgDlPhk41KG20ZC+9G hDq3L2+LtAe/dchUs9gZMlFG8wXvvNWb1LpSOH4l7HpE/qkT4W/wddbA+5/lajhw RLOrt1o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; q=dns; s=sasl; b=L6PdwB 6+4W1Anwx3MoHcZ6IN1W7UQlUZEr5Wp/gqmVXvEdlASuKhvyK/pQiHnw/igk8Uef BWgReQLQHBfuu+eIMF+UcqceZaQGJYSd5Pi4hKinzUova1K1RdadCkZKx10rGfpe 7ha9+9MGif5lKWzrNApnAGls1R6zC37Tg2zyY= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E47933A8C; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:33:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8595E33A8B; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:33:16 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.0-rc2-149-gdd42ee9 In-Reply-To: <1422484393-4414-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A70ED284-A73D-11E4-B94E-7BA29F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The old text gave an impression that even in a new repository using old form might be safer. Only Git from pre 1.7.0 days choke on the correctly named variable, which is ancient by today's standard. We have no intention to remove the support for deprecated ones, but let's make sure that we do not give room for confused questions such as "why does core.sparse-checkout not work, when add.ignore-errors does?" Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 0a4d22a..69f30d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -664,14 +664,13 @@ core.abbrev:: for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long time. -add.ignore-errors:: add.ignoreErrors:: +add.ignore-errors:: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors' - option of linkgit:git-add[1]. Older versions of Git accept only - `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming - convention for configuration variables. Newer versions of Git - honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well. + option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, + as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration + variables. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. -- 2.3.0-rc2-149-gdd42ee9