Merge branch 'cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable' into maint-1.7.8

[git.git] / Documentation / git-clone.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index b093e45497248076c335391f3e95b6384520ef6b..4b8b26b75e63cc56e679d2e2c6d8fd1240010419 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -159,6 +159,17 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
        Specify the directory from which templates will be used;
        (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
 
+--config <key>=<value>::
+-c <key>=<value>::
+       Set a configuration variable in the newly-created repository;
+       this takes effect immediately after the repository is
+       initialized, but before the remote history is fetched or any
+       files checked out.  The key is in the same format as expected by
+       linkgit:git-config[1] (e.g., `core.eol=true`). If multiple
+       values are given for the same key, each value will be written to
+       the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add
+       additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.
+
 --depth <depth>::
        Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
        specified number of revisions.  A shallow repository has a