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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-02 00:40:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-05 14:37:08 -0700 |
| commit | e388c7382563b7497397c78bc078d0679dc891a8 (patch) | |
| tree | d632fde11831ec54fd46275cf9d90118318c93b7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7ebdba614223f867d3f19963647406df1d0e5ce0 (diff) | |
| download | git-e388c7382563b7497397c78bc078d0679dc891a8.tar.gz | |
core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD
When inspecting a project whose build infrastructure used to
assume that .git/HEAD is a symlink ref, core.prefersymlinkrefs
in the config file of such a project would help to bisect its
history.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 9f0bb90d161edf8c43f5261d12bf83f14eb02ff4 commit)
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b27b0d5c06..d1a4bec0d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -64,9 +64,11 @@ core.ignoreStat:: slow, such as Microsoft Windows. See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. False by default. -core.onlyUseSymrefs:: - Always use the "symref" format instead of symbolic links for HEAD - and other symbolic reference files. True by default. +core.preferSymlinkRefs:: + Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD + and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links. + This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that + expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. core.repositoryFormatVersion:: Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout |