diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 38655350f..4a22a00b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -142,6 +142,18 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs:: This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. +core.bare:: + If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no + working directory associated with it. If this is the case a + number of commands that require a working directory will be + disabled, such as gitlink:git-add[1] or gitlink:git-merge[1]. ++ +This setting is automatically guessed by gitlink:git-clone[1] or +gitlink:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a +repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = +false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare += true). + core.logAllRefUpdates:: Updates to a ref is logged to the file "$GIT_DIR/logs/", by appending the new and old