config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:19:11 +0000 (12:19 -0800)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:21:12 +0000 (12:21 -0800)
The old text gave an impression that even in a new repository using
old form might be safer. Only Git from pre 1.7.0 days choke on the
correctly named variable, which is ancient by today's standard.

We have no intention to remove the support for deprecated ones, but
let's make sure that we do not give room for confused questions such
as "why does core.sparse-checkout not work, when add.ignore-errors
does?"

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/config.txt
index 0a4d22aaf7ccf57ec67cd342898977e24d2185a8..69f30d63c25049354bf8d05e6a17725e78578455 100644 (file)
@@ -664,14 +664,13 @@ core.abbrev::
        for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
        time.
 
-add.ignore-errors::
 add.ignoreErrors::
+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].  Older versions of Git accept only
-       `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming
-       convention for configuration variables.  Newer versions of Git
-       honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well.
+       option of linkgit:git-add[1].  `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated,
+       as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration
+       variables.
 
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.