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Clearify the documentation for core.ignoreStat
The previous documentation didn't make it clear that the "assume unchanged" was on per file basis, and not a global flag. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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core.ignoreStat::
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The working copy files are assumed to stay unchanged until you
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mark them otherwise manually - Git will not detect the file changes
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by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems where those are very
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slow, such as Microsoft Windows. See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
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If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index
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will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the
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index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the
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working copy, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
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detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems
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where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows.
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See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
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False by default.
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core.preferSymlinkRefs::
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