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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d2b4a05ca..cf1e04038 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode::
 	the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
 	See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+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 +240,19 @@ 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 +285,10 @@ 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
@@ -341,6 +365,11 @@ format.headers::
 	Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
 	by mail.  See gitlink:git-format-patch[1].
 
+format.suffix::
+	The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
+	`.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
+	include the dot if you want it).
+
 gc.packrefs::
 	`git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
 	default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch
@@ -441,6 +470,11 @@ 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