Merge branch 'js/wrap-log'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d20902bc33226fbb7395fe4d003e9c8408eefdb2..7e41ca6a0d3e4329d1efc10b4dcb90613975e5bd 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,23 @@ core.fileMode::
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.autocrlf::
+       If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to
+       `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
+       writing to the filesystem.  The variable can be set to
+       'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
+       reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
+       `LF` at the end of lines.  Currently, which paths to consider
+       "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
+       decided purely based on the contents.
+
+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
@@ -233,6 +250,19 @@ the largest projects.  You probably do not need to adjust this value.
 +
 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
+core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
+       Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
+       that multiple deltafied objects reference.  By storing the
+       entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
+       to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
+       objects multiple times.
++
+Default is 16 MiB on all platforms.  This should be reasonable
+for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects.
+You probably do not need to adjust this value.
++
+Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
+
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -265,6 +295,10 @@ branch.<name>.merge::
        `git fetch`) to lookup the default branch for merging. Without
        this option, `git pull` defaults to merge the first refspec fetched.
        Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge.
+       If you wish to setup `git pull` so that it merges into <name> from
+       another branch in the local repository, you can point
+       branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the special setting
+       `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote.
 
 color.branch::
        A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
@@ -377,13 +411,20 @@ gc.rerereunresolved::
        The default is 15 days.  See gitlink:git-rerere[1].
 
 gitcvs.enabled::
-       Whether the cvs pserver interface is enabled for this repository.
+       Whether the cvs server interface is enabled for this repository.
        See gitlink:git-cvsserver[1].
 
 gitcvs.logfile::
-       Path to a log file where the cvs pserver interface well... logs
+       Path to a log file where the cvs server interface well... logs
        various stuff. See gitlink:git-cvsserver[1].
 
+gitcvs.allbinary::
+       If true, all files are sent to the client in mode '-kb'. This
+       causes the client to treat all files as binary files which suppresses
+       any newline munging it otherwise might do. A work-around for the
+       fact that there is no way yet to set single files to mode '-kb'.
+       See gitlink:git-cvsserver[1].
+
 http.sslVerify::
        Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
        over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment
@@ -421,7 +462,7 @@ http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
 
 http.noEPSV::
        A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
-       This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which doesn't
+       This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
        support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
        environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
 
@@ -446,6 +487,11 @@ merge.summary::
        Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
        merge commit messages. False by default.
 
+merge.tool::
+       Controls which merge resolution program is used by
+       gitlink:git-mergetool[l].  Valid values are: "kdiff3", "tkdiff",
+       "meld", "xxdiff", "emerge", "vimdiff"
+
 merge.verbosity::
        Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
        strategy.  Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error