Merge branch 'jc/fpl'

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d20902bc33226fbb7395fe4d003e9c8408eefdb2..cf1e040381a99ed458dc061fe103e3c2d2c9474c 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 gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
 
+core.symlinks::
+       If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
+       contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and
+       gitlink:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
+       file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
+       symbolic links. True by default.
+
 core.gitProxy::
        A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
        of establishing direct connection to the remote server when
@@ -233,6 +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
@@ -265,6 +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
@@ -446,6 +470,11 @@ 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