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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/color.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/diff.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/feature.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/fetch.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/format.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/gc.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/index.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/pack.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/remote.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/stash.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/transfer.txt | 2 |
12 files changed, 70 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/color.txt b/Documentation/config/color.txt index 8375596..d5daacb 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/color.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/color.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ color.blame.highlightRecent:: + This setting should be set to a comma-separated list of color and date settings, starting and ending with a color, the dates should be set from oldest to newest. -The metadata will be colored given the colors if the the line was introduced +The metadata will be colored given the colors if the line was introduced before the given timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors. + Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well, e.g. diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index 75538d2..852d2ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ core.untrackedCache:: it will automatically be removed, if set to `false`. Before setting it to `true`, you should check that mtime is working properly on your system. - See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default. + See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default, unless + `feature.manyFiles` is enabled which sets this setting to + `true` by default. core.checkStat:: When missing or is set to `default`, many fields in the stat @@ -577,7 +579,7 @@ the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1]. 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 + to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to true. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for more information. core.useReplaceRefs:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index 5afb5a2..ff09f1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ diff.guitool:: include::../mergetools-diff.txt[] diff.indentHeuristic:: - Set this option to `true` to enable experimental heuristics + Set this option to `false` to disable the default heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read. diff.algorithm:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..875f8c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +feature.*:: + The config settings that start with `feature.` modify the defaults of + a group of other config settings. These groups are created by the Git + developer community as recommended defaults and are subject to change. + In particular, new config options may be added with different defaults. + +feature.experimental:: + Enable config options that are new to Git, and are being considered for + future defaults. Config settings included here may be added or removed + with each release, including minor version updates. These settings may + have unintended interactions since they are so new. Please enable this + setting if you are interested in providing feedback on experimental + features. The new default values are: ++ +* `pack.useSparse=true` uses a new algorithm when constructing a pack-file +which can improve `git push` performance in repos with many files. ++ +* `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by +skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips. ++ +* `fetch.writeCommitGraph=true` writes a commit-graph after every `git fetch` +command that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the `--split` option, +most executions will create a very small commit-graph file on top of the +existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will merge and the +write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph file helps performance +of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`, `git push -f`, and +`git log --graph`. + +feature.manyFiles:: + Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the + working directory. With many files, commands such as `git status` and + `git checkout` may be slow and these new defaults improve performance: ++ +* `index.version=4` enables path-prefix compression in the index. ++ +* `core.untrackedCache=true` enables the untracked cache. This setting assumes +that mtime is working on your machine. diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt index b200634..f119402 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm:: effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one - of its descendants). + of its descendants). If `feature.experimental` is enabled, then this + setting defaults to "skipping". Unknown values will cause 'git fetch' to error out. + See also the `--negotiation-tip` option for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. @@ -78,3 +79,13 @@ A value of 0 will give some reasonable default. If unset, it defaults to 1. + For submodules, this setting can be overridden using the `submodule.fetchJobs` config setting. + +fetch.writeCommitGraph:: + Set to true to write a commit-graph after every `git fetch` command + that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the `--split` option, + most executions will create a very small commit-graph file on top of + the existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will + merge and the write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph + file helps performance of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`, + `git push -f`, and `git log --graph`. Defaults to false, unless + `feature.experimental` is true. diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt index 414a5a8..cb629fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/format.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/format.txt @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ format.coverLetter:: A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch. + Default is false. format.outputDirectory:: Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt index 02b92b1..00ea0a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ gc.writeCommitGraph:: If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when linkgit:git-gc[1] is run. When using `git gc --auto` the commit-graph will be updated if housekeeping is - required. Default is false. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] + required. Default is true. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for details. gc.logExpiry:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/index.txt b/Documentation/config/index.txt index f181503..7cb50b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/index.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/index.txt @@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ index.threads:: index.version:: Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. + If `feature.manyFiles` is enabled, then the default is 4. diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt index 9cdcfa7..1d66f0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ pack.useSparse:: objects. This can have significant performance benefits when computing a pack to send a small change. However, it is possible that extra objects are added to the pack-file if the included - commits contain certain types of direct renames. + commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is `false` + unless `feature.experimental` is enabled. pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated):: This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`. diff --git a/Documentation/config/remote.txt b/Documentation/config/remote.txt index 6c4cad8..a8e6437 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/remote.txt @@ -76,3 +76,11 @@ remote.<name>.pruneTags:: + See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + +remote.<name>.promisor:: + When set to true, this remote will be used to fetch promisor + objects. + +remote.<name>.partialclonefilter:: + The filter that will be applied when fetching from this + promisor remote. diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.txt b/Documentation/config/stash.txt index 7710758..abc7ef4 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ stash.useBuiltin:: the built-in rewrite of it in C. + The C rewrite is first included with Git version 2.22 (and Git for Windows -version 2.19). This option serves an an escape hatch to re-enable the +version 2.19). This option serves as an escape hatch to re-enable the legacy version in case any bugs are found in the rewrite. This option and the shell script version of linkgit:git-stash[1] will be removed in some future release. diff --git a/Documentation/config/transfer.txt b/Documentation/config/transfer.txt index 4a5dfe2..f5b6245 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/transfer.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/transfer.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ linkgit:git-receive-pack[1]. On the fetch side, malformed objects will instead be left unreferenced in the repository. + Due to the non-quarantine nature of the `fetch.fsckObjects` -implementation it can not be relied upon to leave the object store +implementation it cannot be relied upon to leave the object store clean like `receive.fsckObjects` can. + As objects are unpacked they're written to the object store, so there |