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[PATCH v2 6/7] Documentation/config.txt: simplify boolean description in the syntax section

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 4, 2015, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID
<1425504803-16039-7-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To
<1425504803-16039-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>
The 'true' short-hand doesn't deserve a separate sentence; even our own
    git config --bool foo.bar yes
would not produce it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c40bf4a..f1cf571 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ restrictions as section names.
 
 All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
 header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
-'name = value'.  If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line
-is taken as 'name' and the variable is recognized as boolean "true".
+'name = value' (or just 'name', which is a short-hand to say that
+the variable is the boolean "true").
 The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
 and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
 
-- 
2.3.1-316-g7c93423
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