test smart http fetch and push

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2632c5149e380dd9d07b38803614b42db99f2658..7130d0723a091f43e04826b99c56895459fc7b42 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,21 @@ For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description
 in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core
 porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.
 
+advice.*::
+       When set to 'true', display the given optional help message.
+       When set to 'false', do not display. The configuration variables
+       are:
++
+--
+       pushNonFastForward::
+               Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] refuses
+               non-fast-forward refs. Default: true.
+       statusHints::
+               Directions on how to stage/unstage/add shown in the
+               output of linkgit:git-status[1] and the template shown
+               when writing commit messages. Default: true.
+--
+
 core.fileMode::
        If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
@@ -461,6 +476,14 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
 executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
 not necessarily be the current directory.
 
+apply.ignorewhitespace::
+       When set to 'change', tells 'git-apply' to ignore changes in
+       whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change'
+       option.
+       When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git-apply' to
+       respect all whitespace differences.
+       See linkgit:git-apply[1].
+
 apply.whitespace::
        Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
        as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
@@ -516,7 +539,7 @@ branch.<name>.merge::
 
 branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
        Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
-       supported options are equal to that of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
+       supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
        option values containing whitespace characters are currently not
        supported.
 
@@ -1066,6 +1089,14 @@ http.maxRequests::
        How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
        by the 'GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS' environment variable. Default is 5.
 
+http.postBuffer::
+       Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP
+       transports when POSTing data to the remote system.
+       For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and
+       Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
+       massive pack file locally.  Default is 1 MiB, which is
+       sufficient for most requests.
+
 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
        If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
        for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
@@ -1492,6 +1523,19 @@ url.<base>.insteadOf::
        never-before-seen repository on the site.  When more than one
        insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
 
+url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
+       Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
+       instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the
+       resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves
+       a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
+       access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature
+       allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have git
+       automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even for a
+       never-before-seen repository on the site.  When more than one
+       pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
+       used.  If a remote has an explicit pushurl, git will ignore this
+       setting for that remote.
+
 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