Merge branch 'th/remote-usage' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ba6ed1080f6a33f532a1cdd931e09b59ff1358e1..01766b0aa59afbe6711c1f48944e661428bb15aa 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -380,8 +380,9 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 core.excludesfile::
        In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
        '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
-       of files which are not meant to be tracked.  See
-       linkgit:gitignore[5].
+       of files which are not meant to be tracked.  "{tilde}/" is expanded
+       to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's
+       home directory.  See linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
 core.editor::
        Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -416,13 +417,17 @@ core.whitespace::
        consider them as errors.  You can prefix `-` to disable
        any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`):
 +
-* `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
+* `blank-at-eol` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
   as an error (enabled by default).
 * `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
   before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
   error (enabled by default).
 * `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
   space characters as an error (not enabled by default).
+* `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
+  (enabled by default).
+* `trailing-space` is a short-hand to cover both `blank-at-eol` and
+  `blank-at-eof`.
 * `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as
   part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
   does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
@@ -666,6 +671,8 @@ color.ui::
 
 commit.template::
        Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
+       "{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the
+       specified user's home directory.
 
 diff.autorefreshindex::
        When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree