From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68E01F516 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 10:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752026AbeFXKFW (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:05:22 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.13]:26712 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751853AbeFXKFW (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:05:22 -0400 Received: from [91.113.179.170] (helo=[192.168.92.26]) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fX1tX-0002tj-Ek for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:05:19 +0200 From: Marc Strapetz Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: declare "core.ignorecase" as internal variable To: git@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <7f6b2a42-334d-9443-7b89-625069931ca7@syntevo.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:05:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: de-DE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: bWFyYy5zdHJhcGV0ekBzeW50ZXZvLmNvbQ== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org The current description of "core.ignorecase" reads like an option which is intended to be changed by the user while it's actually expected to be set by Git only [1]. [1] https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152972992729761&w=2 Signed-off-by: Marc Strapetz --- Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index ab641bf5a..c25693828 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ core.hideDotFiles:: default mode is 'dotGitOnly'. core.ignoreCase:: - If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable + Internal variable which 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 @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ core.ignoreCase:: + 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. +is created. Modifying this value afterwards may result in unexpected behavior. core.precomposeUnicode:: This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. -- 2.17.0.rc0.3.gb1b5a51b2