Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 0658ffb889320d408f2cad9214e138879059c766..bdd4cb83d347e1044d250ed9c2acab4545efaf13 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ advice.*::
 
 core.fileMode::
        If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
-       the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
+       the working tree are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
 +
 The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ is created.
 
 core.trustctime::
        If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
-       working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time
+       working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
        is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system
        crawlers and some backup systems).
        See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ core.ignoreStat::
        If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index
        will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the
        index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the
-       working copy, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
+       working tree, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
        detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems
        where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows.
        See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
@@ -1453,7 +1453,8 @@ notes.rewriteRef::
        You may also specify this configuration several times.
 +
 Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
-enable note rewriting.
+enable note rewriting.  Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable
+rewriting for the default commit notes.
 +
 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
@@ -1707,10 +1708,10 @@ 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`.
 
 sendemail.identity::
        A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the