bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b30c7e6278adae733cb32345cab719b506cb1760..9fba453f23754b3afc3268f9e6c1db90dca3e55e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ lines.  Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
 You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
 don't need to.
 
-There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
-In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
-names.
+There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
+syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
+compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
+restrictions as section names.
 
 All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
 header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
@@ -114,35 +115,32 @@ 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:
+       These variables control various optional help messages designed to
+       aid new users. All 'advice.*' variables default to 'true', and you
+       can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false':
 +
 --
        pushNonFastForward::
                Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] refuses
-               non-fast-forward refs. Default: true.
+               non-fast-forward refs.
        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.
+               when writing commit messages.
        commitBeforeMerge::
                Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
                merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
-               Default: true.
        resolveConflict::
                Advices shown by various commands when conflicts
                prevent the operation from being performed.
-               Default: true.
        implicitIdentity::
                Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
                your information is guessed from the system username and
-               domain name. Default: true.
-
+               domain name.
        detachedHead::
-               Advice shown when you used linkgit::git-checkout[1] to
+               Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
                move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
-               a local branch after the fact.  Default: true.
+               a local branch after the fact.
 --
 
 core.fileMode::
@@ -473,6 +471,12 @@ core.editor::
        variable when it is set, and the environment variable
        `GIT_EDITOR` is not set.  See linkgit:git-var[1].
 
+sequence.editor::
+       Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase insn file.
+       The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.
+       It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable.
+       When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead.
+
 core.pager::
        The command that git will use to paginate output.  Can
        be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment
@@ -1733,10 +1737,11 @@ rerere.autoupdate::
 
 rerere.enabled::
        Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical
-       conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they
-       be encountered again.  linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by
-       default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under
-       `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false.
+       conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be
+       encountered again.  By default, linkgit:git-rerere[1] is
+       enabled if there is an `rr-cache` directory under the
+       `$GIT_DIR`, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the
+       repository.
 
 sendemail.identity::
        A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the