convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2cd6bdd7d2bc2816c1a9aed1c6a26bbd3285777c..62ade8b7580ebee3e9fed319663ec8e5f1ad481f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -337,9 +337,9 @@ core.quotePath::
 
 core.eol::
        Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
-       files that have the `text` property set.  Alternatives are
-       'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native
-       line ending.  The default value is `native`.  See
+       files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
+       Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
+       native line ending.  The default value is `native`.  See
        linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
        conversion.
 
@@ -389,13 +389,11 @@ file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf`
 mechanism.
 
 core.autocrlf::
-       Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting
-       the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text
-       files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain
-       `CRLF` in the repository will not be touched.  Use this
-       setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
-       working directory even though the repository does not have
-       normalized line endings.  This variable can be set to 'input',
+       Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting
+       the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf".
+       Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
+       working directory and the repository has LF line endings.
+       This variable can be set to 'input',
        in which case no output conversion is performed.
 
 core.symlinks::