update-index: refuse to add working tree items beyond symlinks

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1a13abc92223090c563a19074a29b703758d5286..61c376057c0f2b9510bf6f1b2beb42f9859b7f46 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ core.fileMode::
        the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
        See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.trustctime::
+       If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
+       working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time
+       is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system
+       crawlers and some backup systems).
+       See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
+
 core.quotepath::
        The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files',
        'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote