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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 74973d3cc4..4698d7a42b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config to avoid ambiguity with `<name>` containing one. + This is useful for cases where you want to pass transitory -configuration options to git, but are doing so on OS's where -other processes might be able to read your cmdline -(e.g. `/proc/self/cmdline`), but not your environ +configuration options to git, but are doing so on operating systems +where other processes might be able to read your command line +(e.g. `/proc/self/cmdline`), but not your environment (e.g. `/proc/self/environ`). That behavior is the default on Linux, but may not be on your system. + @@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ If you just want to run git as if it was started in `<path>` then use nohelpers (exclude helper commands), alias and config (retrieve command list from config variable completion.commands) +--attr-source=<tree-ish>:: + Read gitattributes from <tree-ish> instead of the worktree. See + linkgit:gitattributes[5]. This is equivalent to setting the + `GIT_ATTR_SOURCE` environment variable. + GIT COMMANDS ------------ @@ -546,10 +551,10 @@ double-quotes and respecting backslash escapes. E.g., the value `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH`:: If this variable is set, the default hash algorithm for new - repositories will be set to this value. This value is currently - ignored when cloning; the setting of the remote repository - is used instead. The default is "sha1". THIS VARIABLE IS - EXPERIMENTAL! See `--object-format` in linkgit:git-init[1]. + repositories will be set to this value. This value is + ignored when cloning and the setting of the remote repository + is always used. The default is "sha1". + See `--object-format` in linkgit:git-init[1]. Git Commits ~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -686,6 +691,9 @@ for further details. tells Git not to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. +`GIT_ATTR_SOURCE`:: + Sets the treeish that gitattributes will be read from. + `GIT_ASKPASS`:: If this environment variable is set, then Git commands which need to acquire passwords or passphrases (e.g. for HTTP or IMAP authentication) @@ -903,6 +911,16 @@ for full details. should not normally need to set this to `0`, but it may be useful when trying to salvage data from a corrupted repository. +`GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA`:: + When loading a commit object from the commit-graph, Git performs an + existence check on the object in the object database. This is done to + avoid issues with stale commit-graphs that contain references to + already-deleted commits, but comes with a performance penalty. ++ +The default is "false", which disables the aforementioned behavior. +Setting this to "true" enables the existence check so that stale commits +will never be returned from the commit-graph at the cost of performance. + `GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL`:: If set to a colon-separated list of protocols, behave as if `protocol.allow` is set to `never`, and each of the listed @@ -1053,7 +1071,7 @@ Authors ------- Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano. Numerous contributions have come from the Git mailing list -<git@vger.kernel.org>. http://www.openhub.net/p/git/contributors/summary +<git@vger.kernel.org>. https://openhub.net/p/git/contributors/summary gives you a more complete list of contributors. If you have a clone of git.git itself, the |