[PATCH 2/4] config.txt: Document core.autocrlf
Text shamelessly stolen from the 1.5.1 release notes.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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Documentation/config.txt | 10 ++++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 061c585..09c355b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ core.fileMode::
the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
+core.autocrlf::
+ If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to
+ `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
+ writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to
+ 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
+ reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
+ `LF` at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider
+ "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
+ decided purely based on the contents.
+
core.symlinks::
If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and
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1.5.1.1
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>