Merge branch 'mg/doc-bundle'

[git.git] / Documentation / merge-config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index 4832bc75e2604c997e004018023e3b93cb394b87..b72f5339704e89087992b7d6060e88f43b9d661b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ merge.renameLimit::
        during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of
        diff.renameLimit.
 
+merge.renormalize::
+       Tell git that canonical representation of files in the
+       repository has changed over time (e.g. earlier commits record
+       text files with CRLF line endings, but recent ones use LF line
+       endings).  In such a repository, git can convert the data
+       recorded in commits to a canonical form before performing a
+       merge to reduce unnecessary conflicts.  For more information,
+       see section "Merging branches with differing checkin/checkout
+       attributes" in linkgit:gitattributes[5].
+
 merge.stat::
        Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result
        at the end of the merge.  True by default.
@@ -23,7 +33,7 @@ merge.tool::
        Controls which merge resolution program is used by
        linkgit:git-mergetool[1].  Valid built-in values are: "kdiff3",
        "tkdiff", "meld", "xxdiff", "emerge", "vimdiff", "gvimdiff",
-       "diffuse", "ecmerge", "tortoisemerge", and
+       "diffuse", "ecmerge", "tortoisemerge", "p4merge", "araxis" and
        "opendiff".  Any other value is treated is custom merge tool
        and there must be a corresponding mergetool.<tool>.cmd option.