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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1a571f4174..0906499e7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ core.worktree::
Set the path to the root of the working tree.
This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable and the '--work-tree' command line option.
- The value can an absolute path or relative to the path to
+ The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
@@ -442,8 +442,6 @@ for most projects as source code and other text files can still
be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
+
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
-+
-Currently only linkgit:git-fast-import[1] honors this setting.
core.excludesfile::
In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
@@ -558,6 +556,12 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
+core.abbrev::
+ Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified,
+ many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough
+ for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
+ time.
+
add.ignore-errors::
add.ignoreErrors::
Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
@@ -891,9 +895,13 @@ diff.wordRegex::
characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
fetch.recurseSubmodules::
- A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the
- default is to not recursively fetch populated submodules unless
- configured otherwise.
+ This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
+ Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
+ unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not
+ recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default
+ value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule
+ when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
+ reference.
fetch.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects fetched over the git native
@@ -1092,6 +1100,12 @@ All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
access method.
+grep.lineNumber::
+ If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
+
+grep.extendedRegexp::
+ If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default.
+
gui.commitmsgwidth::
Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
@@ -1811,7 +1825,7 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
- This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this
+ This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]