Merge branch 'nd/shallow-fixup'

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a0ab66aae70db90bd18e14ec5bc5c95007b118f7..d51182a0606aa30168d640d2d821a3ec1bc2458d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1891,6 +1891,16 @@ http.userAgent::
        of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
        Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
 
+http.followRedirects::
+       Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to `true`, git
+       will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it
+       encounters. If set to `false`, git will treat all redirects as
+       errors. If set to `initial`, git will follow redirects only for
+       the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
+       follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as
+       the base for the follow-up requests, this is generally
+       sufficient. The default is `initial`.
+
 http.<url>.*::
        Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
        For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is