config.txt: Document gitcvs.allbinary

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@@ -240,6 +240,19 @@ the largest projects.  You probably do not need to adjust this value.
 +
 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
+core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
+       Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
+       that multiple deltafied objects reference.  By storing the
+       entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
+       to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
+       objects multiple times.
++
+Default is 16 MiB on all platforms.  This should be reasonable
+for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects.
+You probably do not need to adjust this value.
++
+Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
+
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -272,6 +285,10 @@ branch.<name>.merge::
        `git fetch`) to lookup the default branch for merging. Without
        this option, `git pull` defaults to merge the first refspec fetched.
        Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge.
+       If you wish to setup `git pull` so that it merges into <name> from
+       another branch in the local repository, you can point
+       branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the special setting
+       `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote.
 
 color.branch::
        A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
@@ -391,6 +408,13 @@ gitcvs.logfile::
        Path to a log file where the cvs pserver interface well... logs
        various stuff. See gitlink:git-cvsserver[1].
 
+gitcvs.allbinary::
+       If true, all files are sent to the client in mode '-kb'. This
+       causes the client to treat all files as binary files which suppresses
+       any newline munging it otherwise might do. A work-around for the
+       fact that there is no way yet to set single files to mode '-kb'.
+       See gitlink:git-cvsserver[1].
+
 http.sslVerify::
        Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
        over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment
@@ -453,6 +477,11 @@ merge.summary::
        Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
        merge commit messages. False by default.
 
+merge.tool::
+       Controls which merge resolution program is used by
+       gitlink:git-mergetool[l].  Valid values are: "kdiff3", "tkdiff",
+       "meld", "xxdiff", "emerge", "vimdiff"
+
 merge.verbosity::
        Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
        strategy.  Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error