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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-06-30 23:49:01 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-06-30 23:49:01 -0700
commitcd5ada993d6a992eaed1c416f9a2ed6ba9c4cb6d (patch)
tree4d8b5629f61ad37e90399adaeeb070201b71a937 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'mk/svn' (diff)
parentconfig: add support for --bool and --int while setting values (diff)
downloadtgif-cd5ada993d6a992eaed1c416f9a2ed6ba9c4cb6d.tar.xz
Merge branch 'fl/config'
* fl/config: config: add support for --bool and --int while setting values
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index a445781664..5f66a7fcd5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-config' [--system | --global] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
-'git-config' [--system | --global] --add name value
-'git-config' [--system | --global] --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-config' [--system | --global] [type] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-config' [--system | --global] [type] --add name value
+'git-config' [--system | --global] [type] --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
'git-config' [--system | --global] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
'git-config' [--system | --global] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
'git-config' [--system | --global] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <<EXAMPLES>>).
The type specifier can be either '--int' or '--bool', which will make
'git-config' ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and
convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int,
-a "true" or "false" string for bool). Type specifiers currently only
-take effect for reading operations. If no type specifier is passed,
+a "true" or "false" string for bool). If no type specifier is passed,
no checks or transformations are performed on the value.
This command will fail if: