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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index abace9eac2..13f83a2a3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ OPTIONS --version:: Prints the Git suite version that the 'git' program came from. + -This option is internaly converted to `git version ...` and accepts +This option is internally converted to `git version ...` and accepts the same options as the linkgit:git-version[1] command. If `--help` is also given, it takes precedence over `--version`. @@ -832,8 +832,9 @@ for full details. `GIT_TRACE_REDACT`:: By default, when tracing is activated, Git redacts the values of - cookies, the "Authorization:" header, and the "Proxy-Authorization:" - header. Set this variable to `0` to prevent this redaction. + cookies, the "Authorization:" header, the "Proxy-Authorization:" + header and packfile URIs. Set this variable to `0` to prevent this + redaction. `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS`:: Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all @@ -867,15 +868,16 @@ for full details. end user, to be recorded in the body of the reflog. `GIT_REF_PARANOIA`:: - If set to `1`, include broken or badly named refs when iterating - over lists of refs. In a normal, non-corrupted repository, this - does nothing. However, enabling it may help git to detect and - abort some operations in the presence of broken refs. Git sets - this variable automatically when performing destructive - operations like linkgit:git-prune[1]. You should not need to set - it yourself unless you want to be paranoid about making sure - an operation has touched every ref (e.g., because you are - cloning a repository to make a backup). + If set to `0`, ignore broken or badly named refs when iterating + over lists of refs. Normally Git will try to include any such + refs, which may cause some operations to fail. This is usually + preferable, as potentially destructive operations (e.g., + linkgit:git-prune[1]) are better off aborting rather than + ignoring broken refs (and thus considering the history they + point to as not worth saving). The default value is `1` (i.e., + be paranoid about detecting and aborting all operations). You + should not normally need to set this to `0`, but it may be + useful when trying to salvage data from a corrupted repository. `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL`:: If set to a colon-separated list of protocols, behave as if |