From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3-24/24] Documentation: include configuration options in manpages
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:55:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100726195552.GA1451@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0be121e0b89f010273f3a3de9ad054bcec26d6c.1280169048.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast wrote:
> +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
> @@ -148,10 +148,8 @@ subdirectories.
> Configuration
> -------------
>
> -The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a
> -file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
> -$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
> -those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
> +@@CONFIG(add.ignore-errors)@@
> +@@CONFIG(core.excludesfile)@@
Hmm, the packrat in me does not like cavalierly throwing away text like
this. :)
[...]
> +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
> @@ -93,12 +93,8 @@ zip
> CONFIGURATION
> -------------
>
> -tar.umask::
> - This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
> - tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
> - world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
> - archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
> - details.
> +@@CONFIG(tar.umask)@@
> +
Can this genre of change be automated?
[...]
> +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
> @@ -222,6 +222,14 @@ but different purposes:
> - `--no-merged` is used to find branches which are candidates for merging
> into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD.
>
> +
> +CONFIGURATION
> +-------------
> +
> +@@CONFIG(branch.autosetupmerge)@@
> +@@CONFIG(branch.autosetuprebase)@@
> +
Obviously a good thing.
Thanks.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 18:48 [RFC PATCH 0/24] Documentation: refactor config variable descriptions Thomas Rast
2010-07-26 18:48 ` [PATCH 2/24] Documentation: Add variable-substitution script Thomas Rast
2010-07-26 19:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-26 20:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-26 21:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-26 21:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-26 18:48 ` [PATCH 3-24/24] Documentation: include configuration options in manpages Thomas Rast
2010-07-26 19:55 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-07-26 19:05 ` [RFC PATCH 0/24] Documentation: refactor config variable descriptions Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[not found] ` <75c9db91f5ab43ebb60cace0d20389462a2ab02c.1280169048.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-07-26 19:38 ` [PATCH 1/24] Documentation: Move variables from config.txt to separate file Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-26 20:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-27 6:48 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-28 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-26 22:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/24] Documentation: refactor config variable descriptions Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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