Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 0f8579331ed6b9324823f01c3a3cdf32c1e9e674..54597f18979fb376e2f1d9ea29f5ac247e9df230 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -522,6 +522,9 @@ core.whitespace::
   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).
+* `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
+  is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when git fixes `tab-in-indent`
+  errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
 
 core.fsyncobjectfiles::
        This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
@@ -787,7 +790,8 @@ color.status.<slot>::
        one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
        `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
        `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
-       `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), or
+       `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git),
+       `branch` (the current branch), or
        `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
        to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in
        color.branch.<slot>.
@@ -893,6 +897,11 @@ diff.wordRegex::
        sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
        characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
 
+fetch.recurseSubmodules::
+       A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the
+       default is to not recursively fetch populated sumodules unless
+       configured otherwise.
+
 fetch.unpackLimit::
        If the number of objects fetched over the git native
        transfer is below this
@@ -987,7 +996,7 @@ gc.packrefs::
        Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
        unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
        transports such as HTTP.  This variable determines whether
-       'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `nobare`
+       'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare`
        to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a
        boolean value.  The default is `true`.
 
@@ -1807,6 +1816,13 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
        URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file.  See
        linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
 
+submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
+       This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this
+       submodule. It can be overriden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
+       command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
+       This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
+       file.
+
 submodule.<name>.ignore::
        Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
        a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered