[PATCH] doc: core.ignoreStat clarify the --assume-unchanged effect

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>

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Dec 11, 2014, 23:48 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
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 Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c26a7c8..81570b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -354,10 +354,11 @@ proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
 core.ignoreStat::
 	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 tree, 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.
+	index. These marked files are then expected to stay unchanged in the
+	working tree. If you change them you should mark their update manually.
+	Git will normally not detect the file changes by lstat() calls.
+	This is useful on systems where those calls are very slow, such as
+	cifs/Microsoft Windows.
 	See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
 	False by default.
 

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