From: Frank Lichtenheld Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:02:31 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/4] config.txt: Document core.autocrlf Message-ID: <11764801532182-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de> In-Reply-To: <11764801533023-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de> Text shamelessly stolen from the 1.5.1 release notes. Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld --- Documentation/config.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) 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 -- 1.5.1.1