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diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index 74619a9..93d65e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -62,22 +62,54 @@ core.protectNTFS:: Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere. core.fsmonitor:: - If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which - will identify all files that may have changed since the - requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by - avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. - See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. + If set to true, enable the built-in file system monitor + daemon for this working directory (linkgit:git-fsmonitor{litdd}daemon[1]). ++ +Like hook-based file system monitors, the built-in file system monitor +can speed up Git commands that need to refresh the Git index +(e.g. `git status`) in a working directory with many files. The +built-in monitor eliminates the need to install and maintain an +external third-party tool. ++ +The built-in file system monitor is currently available only on a +limited set of supported platforms. Currently, this includes Windows +and MacOS. ++ + Otherwise, this variable contains the pathname of the "fsmonitor" + hook command. ++ +This hook command is used to identify all files that may have changed +since the requested date/time. This information is used to speed up +git by avoiding unnecessary scanning of files that have not changed. ++ +See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. ++ +Note that if you concurrently use multiple versions of Git, such +as one version on the command line and another version in an IDE +tool, that the definition of `core.fsmonitor` was extended to +allow boolean values in addition to hook pathnames. Git versions +2.35.1 and prior will not understand the boolean values and will +consider the "true" or "false" values as hook pathnames to be +invoked. Git versions 2.26 thru 2.35.1 default to hook protocol +V2 and will fall back to no fsmonitor (full scan). Git versions +prior to 2.26 default to hook protocol V1 and will silently +assume there were no changes to report (no scan), so status +commands may report incomplete results. For this reason, it is +best to upgrade all of your Git versions before using the built-in +file system monitor. core.fsmonitorHookVersion:: - Sets the version of hook that is to be used when calling fsmonitor. - There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set, - version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1 - will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine - which files have changes since that time but some monitors - like watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp. - Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return - something that can be used to determine what files have changed - without race conditions. + Sets the protocol version to be used when invoking the + "fsmonitor" hook. ++ +There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set, +version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1 +will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine +which files have changes since that time but some monitors +like Watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp. +Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return +something that can be used to determine what files have changed +without race conditions. core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the @@ -399,7 +431,7 @@ the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.deltaBaseCacheLimit:: - Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects + Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching base objects that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base @@ -412,17 +444,32 @@ You probably do not need to adjust this value. Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.bigFileThreshold:: - Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without - attempting delta compression. Storing large files without - delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the - slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files - larger than this size are always treated as binary. + The size of files considered "big", which as discussed below + changes the behavior of numerous git commands, as well as how + such files are stored within the repository. The default is + 512 MiB. Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are + supported. + -Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable -for most projects as source code and other text files can still -be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be. +Files above the configured limit will be: + -Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. +* Stored deflated in packfiles, without attempting delta compression. ++ +The default limit is primarily set with this use-case in mind. With it, +most projects will have their source code and other text files delta +compressed, but not larger binary media files. ++ +Storing large files without delta compression avoids excessive memory +usage, at the slight expense of increased disk usage. ++ +* Will be treated as if they were labeled "binary" (see + linkgit:gitattributes[5]). e.g. linkgit:git-log[1] and + linkgit:git-diff[1] will not compute diffs for files above this limit. ++ +* Will generally be streamed when written, which avoids excessive +memory usage, at the cost of some fixed overhead. Commands that make +use of this include linkgit:git-archive[1], +linkgit:git-fast-import[1], linkgit:git-index-pack[1], +linkgit:git-unpack-objects[1] and linkgit:git-fsck[1]. core.excludesFile:: Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to @@ -473,6 +520,7 @@ core.editor:: `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1]. core.commentChar:: +core.commentString:: Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit messages consider a line that begins with this character commented, and removes them after the editor returns @@ -480,6 +528,20 @@ core.commentChar:: + If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages. ++ +Note that these two variables are aliases of each other, and in modern +versions of Git you are free to use a string (e.g., `//` or `⁑⁕⁑`) with +`commentChar`. Versions of Git prior to v2.45.0 will ignore +`commentString` but will reject a value of `commentChar` that consists +of more than a single ASCII byte. If you plan to use your config with +older and newer versions of Git, you may want to specify both: ++ + [core] + # single character for older versions + commentChar = "#" + # string for newer versions (which will override commentChar + # because it comes later in the file) + commentString = "//" core.filesRefLockTimeout:: The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to @@ -547,13 +609,72 @@ core.whitespace:: is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when Git fixes `tab-in-indent` errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63. +core.fsync:: + A comma-separated list of components of the repository that + should be hardened via the core.fsyncMethod when created or + modified. You can disable hardening of any component by + prefixing it with a '-'. Items that are not hardened may be + lost in the event of an unclean system shutdown. Unless you + have special requirements, it is recommended that you leave + this option empty or pick one of `committed`, `added`, + or `all`. ++ +When this configuration is encountered, the set of components starts with +the platform default value, disabled components are removed, and additional +components are added. `none` resets the state so that the platform default +is ignored. ++ +The empty string resets the fsync configuration to the platform +default. The default on most platforms is equivalent to +`core.fsync=committed,-loose-object`, which has good performance, +but risks losing recent work in the event of an unclean system shutdown. ++ +* `none` clears the set of fsynced components. +* `loose-object` hardens objects added to the repo in loose-object form. +* `pack` hardens objects added to the repo in packfile form. +* `pack-metadata` hardens packfile bitmaps and indexes. +* `commit-graph` hardens the commit-graph file. +* `index` hardens the index when it is modified. +* `objects` is an aggregate option that is equivalent to + `loose-object,pack`. +* `reference` hardens references modified in the repo. +* `derived-metadata` is an aggregate option that is equivalent to + `pack-metadata,commit-graph`. +* `committed` is an aggregate option that is currently equivalent to + `objects`. This mode sacrifices some performance to ensure that work + that is committed to the repository with `git commit` or similar commands + is hardened. +* `added` is an aggregate option that is currently equivalent to + `committed,index`. This mode sacrifices additional performance to + ensure that the results of commands like `git add` and similar operations + are hardened. +* `all` is an aggregate option that syncs all individual components above. + +core.fsyncMethod:: + A value indicating the strategy Git will use to harden repository data + using fsync and related primitives. ++ +* `fsync` uses the fsync() system call or platform equivalents. +* `writeout-only` issues pagecache writeback requests, but depending on the + filesystem and storage hardware, data added to the repository may not be + durable in the event of a system crash. This is the default mode on macOS. +* `batch` enables a mode that uses writeout-only flushes to stage multiple + updates in the disk writeback cache and then does a single full fsync of + a dummy file to trigger the disk cache flush at the end of the operation. ++ +Currently `batch` mode only applies to loose-object files. Other repository +data is made durable as if `fsync` was specified. This mode is expected to +be as safe as `fsync` on macOS for repos stored on HFS+ or APFS filesystems +and on Windows for repos stored on NTFS or ReFS filesystems. + core.fsyncObjectFiles:: This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files. + This setting is deprecated. Use core.fsync instead. + -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"). +This setting affects data added to the Git repository in loose-object +form. When set to true, Git will issue an fsync or similar system call +to flush caches so that loose-objects remain consistent in the face +of a unclean system shutdown. core.preloadIndex:: Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' @@ -582,7 +703,7 @@ core.createObject:: 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 +Set this config setting to 'rename' there; however, this will remove the check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten. core.notesRef:: @@ -606,8 +727,8 @@ core.useReplaceRefs:: core.multiPackIndex:: Use the multi-pack-index file to track multiple packfiles using a - single index. See link:technical/multi-pack-index.html[the - multi-pack-index design document]. + single index. See linkgit:git-multi-pack-index[1] for more + information. Defaults to true. core.sparseCheckout:: Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] @@ -615,8 +736,10 @@ core.sparseCheckout:: core.sparseCheckoutCone:: Enables the "cone mode" of the sparse checkout feature. When the - sparse-checkout file contains a limited set of patterns, then this - mode provides significant performance advantages. See + sparse-checkout file contains a limited set of patterns, this + mode provides significant performance advantages. The "non-cone + mode" can be requested to allow specifying more flexible + patterns by setting this variable to 'false'. See linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] for more information. core.abbrev:: @@ -625,4 +748,12 @@ core.abbrev:: computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. + If set to "no", no abbreviation is made and the object names + are shown in their full length. The minimum length is 4. + +core.maxTreeDepth:: + The maximum depth Git is willing to recurse while traversing a + tree (e.g., "a/b/cde/f" has a depth of 4). This is a fail-safe + to allow Git to abort cleanly, and should not generally need to + be adjusted. The default is 4096. |