Merge branch 'mk/maint-parse-careful'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 7b676710bab0709970abe7411d2246c0eb2b34b8..2091caa111a5a25ee983198437fd25aa52999b51 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -353,6 +353,10 @@ core.whitespace::
   error (enabled by default).
 * `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
   space characters as an error (not enabled by default).
+* `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as
+  part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
+  does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
+  is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
 
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
@@ -375,10 +379,14 @@ apply.whitespace::
 
 branch.autosetupmerge::
        Tells `git-branch` and `git-checkout` to setup new branches
-       so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
-       remote branch.  Note that even if this option is not set,
+       so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the
+       starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
        this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
-       and `--no-track` options.  This option defaults to true.
+       and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no
+       automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the
+       starting point is a remote branch; `always` -- automatic setup is
+       done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote
+       branch. This option defaults to true.
 
 branch.<name>.remote::
        When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` which remote to fetch.
@@ -808,6 +816,8 @@ pack.threads::
        warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
        machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
        is however multiplied by the number of threads.
+       Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
+       and set the number of threads accordingly.
 
 pack.indexVersion::
        Specify the default pack index version.  Valid values are 1 for
@@ -893,6 +903,17 @@ tar.umask::
        archiving user's umask will be used instead.  See umask(2) and
        linkgit:git-archive[1].
 
+url.<base>.insteadOf::
+       Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
+       start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
+       large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
+       access methods, and some users need to use different access
+       methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
+       equivalent URLs and have git automatically rewrite the URL to
+       the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
+       never-before-seen repository on the site.  When more than one
+       insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
+
 user.email::
        Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
        Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and
@@ -918,6 +939,12 @@ imap::
        The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
        in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
 
+receive.fsckObjects::
+       If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received
+       objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
+       broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
+       The default value is true.
+
 receive.unpackLimit::
        If the number of objects received in a push is below this
        limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object