Documentation/config/advice.txt

   1 advice.*::
   2         These variables control various optional help messages designed to
   3         aid new users. All 'advice.*' variables default to 'true', and you
   4         can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false':
   5 +
   6 --
   7         fetchShowForcedUpdates::
   8                 Advice shown when linkgit:git-fetch[1] takes a long time
   9                 to calculate forced updates after ref updates, or to warn
  10                 that the check is disabled.
  11         pushUpdateRejected::
  12                 Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable
  13                 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists',
  14                 'pushFetchFirst', 'pushNeedsForce', and 'pushRefNeedsUpdate'
  15                 simultaneously.
  16         pushNonFFCurrent::
  17                 Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a
  18                 non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
  19         pushNonFFMatching::
  20                 Advice shown when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed
  21                 'matching refs' explicitly (i.e. you used ':', or
  22                 specified a refspec that isn't your current branch) and
  23                 it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
  24         pushAlreadyExists::
  25                 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
  26                 does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
  27         pushFetchFirst::
  28                 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
  29                 tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
  30                 object we do not have.
  31         pushNeedsForce::
  32                 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
  33                 tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
  34                 object that is not a commit-ish, or make the remote
  35                 ref point at an object that is not a commit-ish.
  36         pushUnqualifiedRefname::
  37                 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] gives up trying to
  38                 guess based on the source and destination refs what
  39                 remote ref namespace the source belongs in, but where
  40                 we can still suggest that the user push to either
  41                 refs/heads/* or refs/tags/* based on the type of the
  42                 source object.
  43         pushRefNeedsUpdate::
  44                 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects a forced update of
  45                 a branch when its remote-tracking ref has updates that we
  46                 do not have locally.
  47         skippedCherryPicks::
  48                 Shown when linkgit:git-rebase[1] skips a commit that has already
  49                 been cherry-picked onto the upstream branch.
  50         statusAheadBehind::
  51                 Shown when linkgit:git-status[1] computes the ahead/behind
  52                 counts for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref,
  53                 and that calculation takes longer than expected. Will not
  54                 appear if `status.aheadBehind` is false or the option
  55                 `--no-ahead-behind` is given.
  56         statusHints::
  57                 Show directions on how to proceed from the current
  58                 state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in
  59                 the template shown when writing commit messages in
  60                 linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown
  61                 by linkgit:git-switch[1] or
  62                 linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch.
  63         statusUoption::
  64                 Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1]
  65                 when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked
  66                 files.
  67         commitBeforeMerge::
  68                 Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
  69                 merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
  70         resetQuiet::
  71                 Advice to consider using the `--quiet` option to linkgit:git-reset[1]
  72                 when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate unstaged
  73                 changes after reset.
  74         resolveConflict::
  75                 Advice shown by various commands when conflicts
  76                 prevent the operation from being performed.
  77         sequencerInUse::
  78                 Advice shown when a sequencer command is already in progress.
  79         implicitIdentity::
  80                 Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
  81                 your information is guessed from the system username and
  82                 domain name.
  83         detachedHead::
  84                 Advice shown when you used
  85                 linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1]
  86                 to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to
  87                 create a local branch after the fact.
  88         checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName::
  89                 Advice shown when the argument to
  90                 linkgit:git-checkout[1] and linkgit:git-switch[1]
  91                 ambiguously resolves to a
  92                 remote tracking branch on more than one remote in
  93                 situations where an unambiguous argument would have
  94                 otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be
  95                 checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote`
  96                 configuration variable for how to set a given remote
  97                 to used by default in some situations where this
  98                 advice would be printed.
  99         amWorkDir::
 100                 Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
 101                 linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
 102         rmHints::
 103                 In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1],
 104                 show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
 105         addEmbeddedRepo::
 106                 Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one
 107                 git repo inside of another.
 108         ignoredHook::
 109                 Advice shown if a hook is ignored because the hook is not
 110                 set as executable.
 111         waitingForEditor::
 112                 Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for
 113                 editor input from the user.
 114         nestedTag::
 115                 Advice shown if a user attempts to recursively tag a tag object.
 116         submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie::
 117                 Advice shown when a submodule.alternateErrorStrategy option
 118                 configured to "die" causes a fatal error.
 119         addIgnoredFile::
 120                 Advice shown if a user attempts to add an ignored file to
 121                 the index.
 122         addEmptyPathspec::
 123                 Advice shown if a user runs the add command without providing
 124                 the pathspec parameter.
 125         updateSparsePath::
 126                 Advice shown when either linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-rm[1]
 127                 is asked to update index entries outside the current sparse
 128                 checkout.
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