Merge branch 'jc/checkout'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 217980f48d9d9ac71860d61313e9afa9c6b7c332..5331b450ea051334d53ce3f1e727e33def2ea2cf 100644 (file)
--- 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::
@@ -523,8 +526,10 @@ color.status.<slot>::
        one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
        `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
        `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
-       or `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git). The values of
-       these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
+       `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), or
+       `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
+       to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in
+       color.branch.<slot>.
 
 commit.template::
        Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
@@ -660,11 +665,24 @@ gitcvs.logfile::
        Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs
        various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
 
+gitcvs.usecrlfattr
+       If true, the server will look up the `crlf` attribute for
+       files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If `crlf` is set,
+       the '-k' mode will be left blank, so cvs clients will
+       treat it as text. If `crlf` is explicitly unset, the file
+       will be set with '-kb' mode, which supresses any newline munging
+       the client might otherwise do. If `crlf` is not specified,
+       then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattribute[5].
+
 gitcvs.allbinary::
-       If true, all files are sent to the client in mode '-kb'. This
-       causes the client to treat all files as binary files which suppresses
-       any newline munging it otherwise might do. A work-around for the
-       fact that there is no way yet to set single files to mode '-kb'.
+       This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve
+       the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
+       unresolved files are sent to the client in
+       mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
+       as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
+       otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
+       then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
+       it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'.
 
 gitcvs.dbname::
        Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
@@ -695,8 +713,9 @@ gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
        linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).  Any non-alphabetic
        characters will be replaced with underscores.
 
-All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be
-specified as 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
+All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
+'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be specified as
+'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
 access method.
 
@@ -815,6 +834,12 @@ instaweb.port::
        The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
        linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
 
+log.date::
+       Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date
+       value is similar to using git log's --date option. The value is one of
+       following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}.
+       See linkgit:git-log[1].
+
 log.showroot::
        If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
        This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.