format-patch: add "--signature-file=<file>" option

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 5ce7f9a68b48645841a81b142995228e07292575..140ed771efc1e664262809d804ea7b9100cd049c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`.
 
 The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
 `\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB)
-and `\b` for backspace (BS).  No other char escape sequence, nor octal
-char sequences are valid.
+and `\b` for backspace (BS).  Other char escape sequences (including octal
+escape sequences) are invalid.
 
 Variable values ending in a `\` are continued on the next line in the
 customary UNIX fashion.
@@ -131,8 +131,13 @@ Variables
 
 Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete.
 For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description
-in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core
-porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.
+in the appropriate manual page.
+
+Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables.  When
+inventing new variables for use in your own tool, make sure their
+names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and
+other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation.
+
 
 advice.*::
        These variables control various optional help messages designed to
@@ -821,7 +826,7 @@ color.diff::
        commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
        Defaults to false.
 +
-This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] nor the
+This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the
 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands.  Can be overridden on the
 command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
 
@@ -1109,6 +1114,10 @@ format.signature::
        Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress
        signature generation.
 
+format.signaturefile::
+       Works just like format.signature except the contents of the
+       file specified by this variable will be used as the signature.
+
 format.suffix::
        The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
        `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
@@ -1335,6 +1344,10 @@ gui.diffcontext::
        Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
        made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
 
+gui.displayuntracked::
+       Determines if linkgit::git-gui[1] shows untracked files
+       in the file list. The default is "true".
+
 gui.encoding::
        Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
        file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
@@ -2161,6 +2174,13 @@ repack.usedeltabaseoffset::
        "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the
        native protocol are unaffected by this option.
 
+repack.packKeptObjects::
+       If set to true, makes `git repack` act as if
+       `--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
+       details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
+       index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
+       `pack.writeBitmaps`).
+
 rerere.autoupdate::
        When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
        resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using