Merge branch 'jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix' into maint-1.7.4

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c995a1a47b3cfb99a2bebbadf4f7a5360cbe3d1a..6babbc78375e0c4e4e6ef4bdff8511b53c8cf9d1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim.
 
 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, true/false or on/off.  Case is not significant in boolean values, when
+1/0, true/false or on/off.  Case is not significant in boolean values, when
 converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier;
 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".
 
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ core.worktree::
        Set the path to the root of the working tree.
        This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
        variable and the '--work-tree' command line option.
-       The value can an absolute path or relative to the path to
+       The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
        the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
        or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
        If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
@@ -376,15 +376,6 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
        If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
        and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
 
-core.abbrevguard::
-       Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show
-       an abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are
-       added to the repository over time, a short name that used to be
-       unique will stop being unique.  Git uses this many extra hexdigits
-       that are more than necessary to make the object name currently
-       unique, in the hope that its output will stay unique a bit longer.
-       Defaults to 0.
-
 core.compression::
        An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
        -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
@@ -567,6 +558,12 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
        Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
        linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
 
+core.abbrev::
+       Set the length object names are abbreviated to.  If unspecified,
+       many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough
+       for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
+       time.
+
 add.ignore-errors::
 add.ignoreErrors::
        Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be