config.txt: Document core.autocrlf

Text shamelessly stolen from the 1.5.1 release notes.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Frank Lichtenheld 2007-04-13 18:02:31 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ core.fileMode::
the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
See gitlink:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
core.autocrlf::
If true, makes git 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.
core.symlinks::
If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
contain the link text. gitlink:git-update-index[1] and