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-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-files.txt3
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index e8ad978824..500230c054 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ its behaviour. Try to make sure your explanation can be understood
without external resources. Instead of giving a URL to a mailing list
archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion.
+If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable
+branch use the format "abbreviated sha1 (subject, date)". So for example
+like this: "Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30)
+noticed [...]".
+
(3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index f163113a6f..83f86b9231 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking
precedence over values read earlier. When multiple values are taken then all
values of a key from all files will be used.
+You may override individual configuration parameters when running any git
+command by using the `-c` option. See linkgit:git[1] for details.
+
All writing options will per default write to the repository specific
configuration file. Note that this also affects options like `--replace-all`
and `--unset`. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 078b556665..0d933ac355 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -159,8 +159,7 @@ not accessible in the working tree.
+
<eolattr> is the attribute that is used when checking out or committing,
it is either "", "-text", "text", "text=auto", "text eol=lf", "text eol=crlf".
-Note: Currently Git does not support "text=auto eol=lf" or "text=auto eol=crlf",
-that may change in the future.
+Since Git 2.10 "text=auto eol=lf" and "text=auto eol=crlf" are supported.
+
Both the <eolinfo> in the index ("i/<eolinfo>")
and in the working tree ("w/<eolinfo>") are shown for regular files,