git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c6f09f801a8dbb2f03e73ab5dd11c1139332fa5f..0b53cab6af60f0a0040de895ec7aa180a037b8a7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -461,6 +461,14 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
 executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
 not necessarily be the current directory.
 
+apply.ignorewhitespace::
+       When set to 'change', tells 'git-apply' to ignore changes in
+       whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change'
+       option.
+       When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git-apply' to
+       respect all whitespace differences.
+       See linkgit:git-apply[1].
+
 apply.whitespace::
        Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
        as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].