Merge branch 'js/reverse'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ebda2e0f6117d8306e671601513275f25af8fce6..38655350f22bde08786b4a42e608ba76c1becea4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ in the section header, like in example below:
 
 Subsection names can contain any characters except newline (doublequote
 '`"`' and backslash have to be escaped as '`\"`' and '`\\`',
-respecitvely) and are case sensitive.  Section header cannot span multiple
+respectively) and are case sensitive.  Section header cannot span multiple
 lines.  Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
 You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
 don't need to.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either
 a string, an integer, or a boolean.  Boolean values may be given as yes/no,
 0/1 or true/false.  Case is not significant in boolean values, when
 converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier;
-`git-repo-config` will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".
+`git-config` will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".
 
 String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes.
 You need to enclose variable value in double quotes if you want to
@@ -222,6 +222,12 @@ alias.*::
        spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported.
        quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them.
 
+       If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
+       it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
+       "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
+       "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
+       "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".
+
 apply.whitespace::
        Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
        as the '--whitespace' option. See gitlink:git-apply[1].
@@ -315,6 +321,17 @@ format.headers::
        Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
        by mail.  See gitlink:git-format-patch[1].
 
+gc.packrefs::
+       `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
+       default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch
+       from the repository.  Setting this to `true` lets `git
+       gc` to run `git pack-refs`.  Setting this to `false` tells
+       `git gc` never to run `git pack-refs`. The default setting is
+       `notbare`. Enable it only when you know you do not have to
+       support such clients.  The default setting will change to `true`
+       at some stage, and setting this to `false` will continue to
+       prevent `git pack-refs` from being run from `git gc`.
+
 gc.reflogexpire::
        `git reflog expire` removes reflog entries older than
        this time; defaults to 90 days.