From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:14:24 +0200 Message-ID: <043361f81946d5657217e6be0f22f4df350fd13f.1212152269.git.marius@trolltech.com> References: <483C6D60.7090705@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Junio C Hamano To: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 30 15:09:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K24M7-0007rZ-Q1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 15:09:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751346AbYE3NIX (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 09:08:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751325AbYE3NIX (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 09:08:23 -0400 Received: from hoat.troll.no ([62.70.27.150]:46268 "EHLO hoat.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbYE3NIW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 09:08:22 -0400 Received: from hoat.troll.no (tedur.troll.no [62.70.27.154]) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B42120BEA; Fri, 30 May 2008 15:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.3.4.215] (error.troll.no [10.3.4.215]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100C620BEF; Fri, 30 May 2008 15:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- Documentation/config.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c298dc2..5331b45 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:: -- 1.5.5.GIT