From f4a9bd49c7f3d59559dd7f0982b0f840209160fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?SZEDER=20G=C3=A1bor?= Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:38:49 +0200 Subject: Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Due to limitations/bugs in the current implementation, some configuration variables specified via 'git clone -c var=val' (or 'git -c var=val clone') are ignored during the initial fetch and checkout. Let the users know which configuration variables are known to be ignored ('remote.origin.mirror' and 'remote.origin.tagOpt') under the documentation of 'git clone -c'. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index ec41d3d698..49d4af87ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. values are given for the same key, each value will be written to the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote. ++ +Due to limitations of the current implementation, some configuration +variables do not take effect until after the initial fetch and checkout. +Configuration variables known to not take effect are: +`remote..mirror` and `remote..tagOpt`. --depth :: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the -- cgit v1.2.1