Allow fast-import frontends to reload the marks table

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d20902bc33226fbb7395fe4d003e9c8408eefdb2..5408dd67d316ce3334f2843267a604f5a4ea044b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode::
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.symlinks::
+       If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
+       contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and
+       gitlink:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
+       file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
+       symbolic links. True by default.
+
 core.gitProxy::
        A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
        of establishing direct connection to the remote server when