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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2009-04-27 22:32:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-29 23:50:07 (GMT) |
| commit | 348df16679cf35b7bba7afea99638e7d81dc3d33 (patch) | |
| tree | 81bd57136af669f74c387061e6cd3dd502e23882 /Documentation | |
| parent | 26e47f25402ad51c6cfa1cd784a3431dd00deeb2 (diff) | |
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Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObject
"Unreliable hardlinks" is a misleading description for what is happening.
So rename it to something less misleading.
Suggested by Linus Torvalds.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d31adb6..5dcad94 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -429,10 +429,14 @@ relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO's. -core.unreliableHardlinks:: - Some filesystem drivers cannot properly handle hardlinking a file - and deleting the source right away. In such a case, you need to - set this config variable to 'true'. +core.createObject:: + You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by + a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation + will not overwrite existing objects. ++ +On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable. +Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the +check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. |