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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 736fcd71c..fabe7f859 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -295,6 +295,20 @@ core.pager::
 	The command that git will use to paginate output.  Can be overridden
 	with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable.
 
+core.whitespace::
+	A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
+	notice.  `git diff` will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
+	highlight them, and `git apply --whitespace=error` will
+	consider them as errors:
++
+* `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
+  as an error (enabled by default).
+* `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
+  before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
+  error (enabled by default).
+* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
+  space characters that can be replaced with tab characters.
+
 alias.*::
 	Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
 	after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -387,8 +401,8 @@ color.diff.<slot>::
 	which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
 	of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
 	(hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines),
-	`commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting dubious
-	whitespace).  The values of these variables may be specified as
+	`commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting
+	whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as
 	in color.branch.<slot>.
 
 color.interactive::
@@ -762,6 +776,12 @@ showbranch.default::
 	The default set of branches for gitlink:git-show-branch[1].
 	See gitlink:git-show-branch[1].
 
+status.relativePaths::
+	By default, gitlink:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the
+	current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths
+	relative to the repository root (this was the default for git
+	prior to v1.5.4).
+
 tar.umask::
 	This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
 	tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the