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diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.adoc b/Documentation/config/core.adoc index 3fbe83eef1..11efad189e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/core.adoc @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ The built-in file system monitor is currently available only on a limited set of supported platforms. Currently, this includes Windows and MacOS. + - Otherwise, this variable contains the pathname of the "fsmonitor" - hook command. +Otherwise, this variable contains the pathname of the "fsmonitor" +hook command. + This hook command is used to identify all files that may have changed since the requested date/time. This information is used to speed up @@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs:: 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. ++ +This configuration is deprecated and will be removed in Git 3.0. Symbolic refs +will always be written as textual symrefs. core.alternateRefsCommand:: When advertising tips of available history from an alternate, use the shell to @@ -531,9 +534,25 @@ core.commentString:: commented, and removes them after the editor returns (default '#'). + -If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not +ifndef::with-breaking-changes[] +If set to "auto", `git-commit` will select a character that is not the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages. -+ +Support for this value is deprecated and will be removed in Git 3.0 +due to the following limitations: ++ +-- +* It is incompatible with adding comments in a commit message + template. This includes the conflicts comments added to + the commit message by `cherry-pick`, `merge`, `rebase` and + `revert`. +* It is incompatible with adding comments to the commit message + in the `prepare-commit-msg` hook. +* It is incompatible with the `fixup` and `squash` commands when + rebasing, +* It is not respected by `git notes` +-- ++ +endif::with-breaking-changes[] Note that these two variables are aliases of each other, and in modern versions of Git you are free to use a string (e.g., `//` or `⁑⁕⁑`) with `commentChar`. Versions of Git prior to v2.45.0 will ignore |