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Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set
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The value of core.worktree in a ".git/config" is honored even when it
differs from the directory that has the ".git" directory as its
subdirectory.  This is likely to be a misconfiguration, so warn users
about it.  Also, drop the part of the documentation that incorrectly
claimed that we ignore such a misconfigured value.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy authored and Junio C Hamano committed Dec 29, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -297,17 +297,24 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
= true).

core.worktree::
Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be
used in combination with repositories found automatically in
a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set).
Set the path to the root of the work tree.
This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. It can be
a absolute path or relative path to the directory specified by
--git-dir or GIT_DIR.
Note: If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
an absolute path or a relative path to the .git directory,
either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically
discovered.
If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
--work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
the current working directory is regarded as the top directory
of your working tree.
the current working directory is regarded as the root of the
work tree.
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Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory, and its value differs
from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
misconfiguration. Running git commands in "/path/to" directory will
still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
great confusion to the users.

core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
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