git-status: document colorization config options

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ce722a2db07e2a41cfdebc235538cf4ca2a170ad..844cae4cf024b17206021d1c55819922cf99277d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -225,6 +225,20 @@ showbranch.default::
        The default set of branches for gitlink:git-show-branch[1].
        See gitlink:git-show-branch[1].
 
+status.color::
+       A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
+       gitlink:git-status[1]. May be set to `true` (or `always`),
+       `false` (or `never`) or `auto`, in which case colors are used
+       only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
+
+status.color.<slot>::
+       Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is
+       one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
+       `updated` (files which are updated but not committed),
+       `changed` (files which are changed but not updated in the index),
+       or `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git). The values of
+       these variables may be specified as in diff.color.<slot>.
+
 tar.umask::
        By default, gitlink:git-tar-tree[1] sets file and directories modes
        to 0666 or 0777. While this is both useful and acceptable for projects