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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 35569a0a77..5cb334c2b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -191,16 +191,13 @@ core.quotepath:: quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this variable. -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. A file is considered - "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on - the file's `text` attribute, or if `text` is unspecified, - based on the file's contents. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. +core.eol:: + Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for + files that have the `text` property set. Alternatives are + 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native + line ending. The default value is `native`. See + linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line + conversion. core.safecrlf:: If true, makes git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when @@ -214,7 +211,7 @@ core.safecrlf:: irreversible conversion but continue the operation. + CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. -autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to +When it is enabled, git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings @@ -238,15 +235,25 @@ converting CRLFs corrupts data. + Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a file identical to the original file for a different setting of -`core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For example, a text -file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.autocrlf=input` and could -later be checked out with `core.autocrlf=true`, in which case the +`core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For +example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf` +and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf` mechanism. +core.autocrlf:: + Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting + the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text + files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain + `CRLF` in the repository will not be touched. Use this + setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your + working directory even though the repository does not have + normalized line endings. This variable can be set to 'input', + in which case no output conversion is performed. + core.symlinks:: If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and |