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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2007-12-07 16:26:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-12-08 03:33:24 -0800 |
| commit | 46f721c8fee9f1c027f96e2bf987ce6e7d05ab94 (patch) | |
| tree | cc538c99132ea4dad626b5b26e7fb576d72b38c0 /Documentation | |
| parent | c3ce3261281d00bcdd59907e76f421034ccb1261 (diff) | |
| download | git-46f721c8fee9f1c027f96e2bf987ce6e7d05ab94.tar.gz | |
add status.relativePaths config variable
The output of git-status was recently changed to output relative
paths. Setting this variable to false restores the old behavior for
any old-timers that prefer it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 736fcd71cc..79d51f26cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -762,6 +762,12 @@ showbranch.default:: The default set of branches for gitlink:git-show-branch[1]. See gitlink:git-show-branch[1]. +status.relativePaths:: + By default, gitlink:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the + current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths + relative to the repository root (this was the default for git + prior to v1.5.4). + tar.umask:: This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index b0cb6bc8b7..645dc85ceb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ template comments, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'. The paths mentioned in the output, unlike many other git commands, are made relative to the current directory, if you are working in a -subdirectory (this is on purpose, to help cutting and pasting). +subdirectory (this is on purpose, to help cutting and pasting). See +the status.relativePaths config option below. CONFIGURATION @@ -53,6 +54,10 @@ mean the same thing and the latter is kept for backward compatibility) and `color.status.<slot>` configuration variables to colorize its output. +If the config variable `status.relativePaths` is set to false, then all +paths shown are relative to the repository root, not to the current +directory. + See Also -------- gitlink:gitignore[5] |