On Wed, Jun 02 2021, Andrei Rybak wrote: > Config variables feature.experimental and feature.manyFiles are grouped > together under "feature.*". However, this is not easily visible when > scanning the help page of git-config. > > Indent the descriptions of individual feature.* config variables to help > the reader distinguish this group of variables. > > Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/config/feature.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++--------------- > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt > index cdecd04e5b..2c4dee170b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/config/feature.txt > +++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt > @@ -3,24 +3,26 @@ feature.*:: > a group of other config settings. These groups are created by the Git > developer community as recommended defaults and are subject to change. > In particular, new config options may be added with different defaults. > - > -feature.experimental:: > - Enable config options that are new to Git, and are being considered for > - future defaults. Config settings included here may be added or removed > - with each release, including minor version updates. These settings may > - have unintended interactions since they are so new. Please enable this > - setting if you are interested in providing feedback on experimental > - features. The new default values are: > + > -* `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by > -skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips. > +-- > + feature.experimental:: > + Enable config options that are new to Git, and are being considered for > + future defaults. Config settings included here may be added or removed > + with each release, including minor version updates. These settings may > + have unintended interactions since they are so new. Please enable this > + setting if you are interested in providing feedback on experimental > + features. The new default values are: > + + > + * `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by > + skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips. > > -feature.manyFiles:: > - Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the > - working directory. With many files, commands such as `git status` and > - `git checkout` may be slow and these new defaults improve performance: > -+ > -* `index.version=4` enables path-prefix compression in the index. > -+ > -* `core.untrackedCache=true` enables the untracked cache. This setting assumes > -that mtime is working on your machine. > + feature.manyFiles:: > + Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the > + working directory. With many files, commands such as `git status` and > + `git checkout` may be slow and these new defaults improve performance: > + + > + * `index.version=4` enables path-prefix compression in the index. > + + > + * `core.untrackedCache=true` enables the untracked cache. This setting assumes > + that mtime is working on your machine. > +-- I don't know if/how this helps readability, but this breaks the feature.* generation of these variables in config-list.h, see generate-configlist.sh. So if you make this change you need to fix that script as well.
