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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 15 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 894546dd75..0f8cccf52d 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -413,6 +413,29 @@ Error Messages - Say what the error is first ("cannot open %s", not "%s: cannot open") +Externally Visible Names + + - For configuration variable names, follow the existing convention: + + . The section name indicates the affected subsystem. + + . The subsection name, if any, indicates which of an unbounded set + of things to set the value for. + + . The variable name describes the effect of tweaking this knob. + + The section and variable names that consist of multiple words are + formed by concatenating the words without punctuations (e.g. `-`), + and are broken using bumpyCaps in documentation as a hint to the + reader. + + When choosing the variable namespace, do not use variable name for + specifying possibly unbounded set of things, most notably anything + an end user can freely come up with (e.g. branch names). Instead, + use subsection names or variable values, like the existing variable + branch.<name>.description does. + + Writing Documentation: Most (if not all) of the documentation pages are written in the diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 04e2a71687..b22a7a7ff5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -683,14 +683,13 @@ core.abbrev:: for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long time. -add.ignore-errors:: add.ignoreErrors:: +add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors' - option of linkgit:git-add[1]. Older versions of Git accept only - `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming - convention for configuration variables. Newer versions of Git - honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well. + option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, + as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration + variables. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. @@ -1960,7 +1959,7 @@ pack.useBitmaps:: true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless you are debugging pack bitmaps. -pack.writebitmaps:: +pack.writebitmaps (deprecated):: This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`. pack.writeBitmapHashCache:: @@ -2297,7 +2296,7 @@ sendemail.smtpencryption:: See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism. -sendemail.smtpssl:: +sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated):: Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpencryption = ssl'. sendemail.smtpsslcertpath:: @@ -2337,7 +2336,7 @@ sendemail.validate:: sendemail.xmailer:: See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. -sendemail.signedoffcc:: +sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated):: Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.signedoffbycc'. showbranch.default:: |