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[PATCH v2] config: fix commit-graph related config docs

From
Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2018, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20180823155107.16658-1-dstolee@microsoft.com>
In-Reply-To
<20180822131547.56899-1-dstolee@microsoft.com>

The core.commitGraph config setting was accidentally removed from the config documentation. In that same patch, the config setting that writes a commit-graph during garbage collection was incorrectly written to the doc as "gc.commitGraph" instead of "gc.writeCommitGraph".

Reported-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1c42364988..6ee1890984 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -917,12 +917,10 @@ core.notesRef::
 This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
 the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable.  See linkgit:git-notes[1].
 
-gc.commitGraph::
-	If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when
-	linkgit:git-gc[1] is run. When using linkgit:git-gc[1]
-	'--auto' the commit-graph will be updated if housekeeping is
-	required. Default is false. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1]
-	for details.
+core.commitGraph::
+	If true, then git will read the commit-graph file (if it exists)
+	to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to false. See
+	linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for more information.
 
 core.useReplaceRefs::
 	If set to `false`, behave as if the `--no-replace-objects`
@@ -1763,6 +1761,13 @@ this configuration variable is ignored, all packs except the base pack
 will be repacked. After this the number of packs should go below
 gc.autoPackLimit and gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again.
 
+gc.writeCommitGraph::
+	If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when
+	linkgit:git-gc[1] is run. When using linkgit:git-gc[1]
+	'--auto' the commit-graph will be updated if housekeeping is
+	required. Default is false. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1]
+	for details.
+
 gc.logExpiry::
 	If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run
 	unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old.  Default is
-- 
2.19.0.rc0
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  1. config: fix commit-graph related config docsDerrick Stolee, Aug 22, 2018
  2. Duy NguyenAug 22, 2018
  3. Johannes SixtAug 22, 2018
  4. config: fix commit-graph related config docsDerrick Stolee, Aug 23, 2018
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2018

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