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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d31adb6719..5dcad94f84 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -429,10 +429,14 @@ relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO's. -core.unreliableHardlinks:: - Some filesystem drivers cannot properly handle hardlinking a file - and deleting the source right away. In such a case, you need to - set this config variable to 'true'. +core.createObject:: + You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by + a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation + will not overwrite existing objects. ++ +On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable. +Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the +check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. |