config.txt: Document core.autocrlf

Text shamelessly stolen from the 1.5.1 release notes.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 061c585629fe6ff18188ba4067ee912cd169091f..38831bc906056e0ac5a219268e6796b727941481 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ core.fileMode::
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.autocrlf::
+       If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to
+       `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
+       writing to the filesystem.  The variable can be set to
+       'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
+       reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
+       `LF` at the end of lines.  Currently, which paths to consider
+       "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
+       decided purely based on the contents.
+
 core.symlinks::
        If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
        contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and