Merge branch 'ph/submodule-rebase' (early part)

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
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--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE
 
 The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
 the git command's behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository
-is used to store the information for that repository, and
-`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information as
+is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
+`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as
 fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
-can be used to store system-wide defaults.
+can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
 
 The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing
 and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
@@ -429,6 +429,20 @@ relatively high IO latencies.  With this set to 'true', git will do the
 index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
 overlapping IO's.
 
+core.createObject::
+       You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
+       a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation
+       will not overwrite existing objects.
++
+On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable.
+Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the
+check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
+
+add.ignore-errors::
+       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].
+
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -595,6 +609,12 @@ color.pager::
        A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
        use (default is true).
 
+color.showbranch::
+       A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
+       linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
+       `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
+       only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
+
 color.status::
        A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
        linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`,