core.whitespace: documentation updates.

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index edf50cd2113e73daa0a05c16a416424441f010f3..0e711374dd99e5be07e17bae1b37c81e9062fd66 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -293,6 +293,20 @@ core.pager::
        The command that git will use to paginate output.  Can be overridden
        with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable.
 
+core.whitespace::
+       A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
+       notice.  `git diff` will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
+       highlight them, and `git apply --whitespace=error` will
+       consider them as errors:
++
+* `trailing-space` 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 that can be replaced with tab characters.
+
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -378,8 +392,8 @@ color.diff.<slot>::
        which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
        of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
        (hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines),
-       `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting dubious
-       whitespace).  The values of these variables may be specified as
+       `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting
+       whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as
        in color.branch.<slot>.
 
 color.pager::