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         statusAheadBehind::
  48                 Shown when linkgit:git-status[1] computes the ahead/behind
  49                 counts for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref,
  50                 and that calculation takes longer than expected. Will not
  51                 appear if `status.aheadBehind` is false or the option
  52                 `--no-ahead-behind` is given.
  53         statusHints::
  54                 Show directions on how to proceed from the current
  55                 state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in
  56                 the template shown when writing commit messages in
  57                 linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown
  58                 by linkgit:git-switch[1] or
  59                 linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch.
  60         statusUoption::
  61                 Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1]
  62                 when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked
  63                 files.
  64         commitBeforeMerge::
  65                 Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
  66                 merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
  67         resetQuiet::
  68                 Advice to consider using the `--quiet` option to linkgit:git-reset[1]
  69                 when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate unstaged
  70                 changes after reset.
  71         resolveConflict::
  72                 Advice shown by various commands when conflicts
  73                 prevent the operation from being performed.
  74         sequencerInUse::
  75                 Advice shown when a sequencer command is already in progress.
  76         implicitIdentity::
  77                 Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
  78                 your information is guessed from the system username and
  79                 domain name.
  80         detachedHead::
  81                 Advice shown when you used
  82                 linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1]
  83                 to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to
  84                 create a local branch after the fact.
  85         checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName::
  86                 Advice shown when the argument to
  87                 linkgit:git-checkout[1] and linkgit:git-switch[1]
  88                 ambiguously resolves to a
  89                 remote tracking branch on more than one remote in
  90                 situations where an unambiguous argument would have
  91                 otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be
  92                 checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote`
  93                 configuration variable for how to set a given remote
  94                 to used by default in some situations where this
  95                 advice would be printed.
  96         amWorkDir::
  97                 Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
  98                 linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
  99         rmHints::
 100                 In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1],
 101                 show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
 102         addEmbeddedRepo::
 103                 Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one
 104                 git repo inside of another.
 105         ignoredHook::
 106                 Advice shown if a hook is ignored because the hook is not
 107                 set as executable.
 108         waitingForEditor::
 109                 Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for
 110                 editor input from the user.
 111         nestedTag::
 112                 Advice shown if a user attempts to recursively tag a tag object.
 113         submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie::
 114                 Advice shown when a submodule.alternateErrorStrategy option
 115                 configured to "die" causes a fatal error.
 116         addIgnoredFile::
 117                 Advice shown if a user attempts to add an ignored file to
 118                 the index.
 119         addEmptyPathspec::
 120                 Advice shown if a user runs the add command without providing
 121                 the pathspec parameter.
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