status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long

diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
index ec4f6ae6585bac4b107134e52f544d53c24cdf86..4bc5b4c74236f2f659c779d45b7efab1ab55a992 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ advice.*::
                we can still suggest that the user push to either
                refs/heads/* or refs/tags/* based on the type of the
                source object.
+       statusAheadBehind::
+               Shown when linkgit:git-status[1] computes the ahead/behind
+               counts for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref,
+               and that calculation takes longer than expected. Will not
+               appear if `status.aheadBehind` is false or the option
+               `--no-ahead-behind` is given.
        statusHints::
                Show directions on how to proceed from the current
                state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in