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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-08-07 01:56:23 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-08-07 18:40:29 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'lt/config-fsync' into maint
* lt/config-fsync: Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
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@@ -372,6 +372,14 @@ core.whitespace::
does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
+core.fsyncobjectfiles::
+ This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
++
+This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders
+data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use
+journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
+and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation