Merge branch 'maint-1.6.2' into maint-1.6.3

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d31adb6719eeff3009a2799b89d5ae6d343d3e88..181c2f9bdeb9a453a0e61c69f1806c33fc7832fc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -429,10 +429,19 @@ relatively high IO latencies.  With this set to 'true', git will do the
 index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
 overlapping IO's.
 
-core.unreliableHardlinks::
-       Some filesystem drivers cannot properly handle hardlinking a file
-       and deleting the source right away.  In such a case, you need to
-       set this config variable to 'true'.
+core.createObject::
+       You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
+       a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation
+       will not overwrite existing objects.
++
+On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable.
+Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the
+check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
+
+add.ignore-errors::
+       Tells 'git-add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
+       added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
+       option of linkgit:git-add[1].
 
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
@@ -447,7 +456,9 @@ If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
 it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
 "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
 "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
-"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".
+"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".  Note that shell commands will be
+executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
+not necessarily be the current directory.
 
 apply.whitespace::
        Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
@@ -593,7 +604,7 @@ color.interactive.<slot>::
        Use customized color for 'git-add --interactive'
        output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for
        four distinct types of normal output from interactive
-       programs.  The values of these variables may be specified as
+       commands.  The values of these variables may be specified as
        in color.branch.<slot>.
 
 color.pager::
@@ -1089,7 +1100,7 @@ instaweb.port::
        linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
 
 interactive.singlekey::
-       In interactive programs, allow the user to provide one-letter
+       In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter
        input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
        Currently this is used only by the `\--patch` mode of
        linkgit:git-add[1].  Note that this setting is silently