[PATCH] Document the new core.bare configuration option.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index f5c846f..9d045d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -142,6 +142,18 @@ core.preferSymlinkRefs::
This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that
expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
+core.bare::
+ If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no
+ working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
+ number of commands that require a working directory will be
+ disabled, such as gitlink:git-add[1] or gitlink:git-merge[1].
++
+This setting is automatically guessed by gitlink:git-clone[1] or
+gitlink:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a
+repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare =
+false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
+= true).
+
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old
--
1.5.0.1.615.gfb51
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>