On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 17:24 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > So on sane platforms, you do not want to set that variable, > unless you are helping to test and improve that feature. In that case we should document it as well. Having the information in the Releasenotes is nice, but having it in the git-config manpage too may be better, text taken straight from the Releasenotes for git 1.5.1. --- Documentation/config.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 5408dd6..7864ea3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable (which always applies universally, without the special "for" handling). +core.autocrlf:: + When set to 'true', makes git to 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, but the plan is to allow users to + explicitly override this heuristic based on paths. + core.ignoreStat:: The working copy files are assumed to stay unchanged until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not detect the file changes -- 1.5.0.3.942.g299f -- best regards Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html