From: Marius Storm-Olsen Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:14:24 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat Message-ID: <043361f81946d5657217e6be0f22f4df350fd13f.1212152269.git.marius@trolltech.com> In-Reply-To: <483C6D60.7090705@trolltech.com> 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