git/Documentation/config
Felipe Contreras 765071a8f2 advice: add diverging advice for novices
The user might not necessarily know why ff only was configured, maybe an
admin did it, or the installer (Git for Windows), or perhaps they just
followed some online advice.

This can happen not only on pull.ff=only, but merge.ff=only too.

Even worse if the user has configured pull.rebase=false and
merge.ff=only, because in those cases a diverging merge will constantly
keep failing. There's no trivial way to get out of this other than
`git merge --no-ff`.

Let's not assume our users are experts in git who completely understand
all their configurations.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-08 09:28:42 -08:00
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add.txt add: remove "add.interactive.useBuiltin" & Perl "git add--interactive" 2023-02-06 15:03:34 -08:00
advice.txt advice: add diverging advice for novices 2023-03-08 09:28:42 -08:00
alias.txt config/alias.txt: document alias accepting non-command first word 2019-06-06 09:33:42 -07:00
am.txt
apply.txt
blame.txt blame: correct name of config option in docs 2021-06-28 10:05:13 -07:00
branch.txt push: default to single remote even when not named origin 2022-04-29 11:20:55 -07:00
browser.txt
bundle.txt bundle-uri: parse bundle.heuristic=creationToken 2023-01-31 08:57:48 -08:00
checkout.txt parallel-checkout: add configuration options 2021-04-19 11:57:05 -07:00
clean.txt
clone.txt clone, submodule: pass partial clone filters to submodules 2022-02-09 15:38:36 -08:00
color.txt Merge branch 'hm/paint-hits-in-log-grep' 2021-11-01 13:48:08 -07:00
column.txt
commit.txt
commitgraph.txt commit-graph: use config to specify generation type 2021-02-25 15:10:41 -08:00
completion.txt
core.txt doc: use "commit-graph" hyphenation consistently 2022-10-30 19:58:40 -04:00
credential.txt crendential-store: use timeout when locking file 2020-11-25 12:30:18 -08:00
diff.txt difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections 2022-09-07 09:46:06 -07:00
difftool.txt difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections 2022-09-07 09:46:06 -07:00
extensions.txt Documentation: add extensions.worktreeConfig details 2022-02-08 09:49:20 -08:00
fastimport.txt
feature.txt features: feature.manyFiles implies fast index writes 2023-01-07 07:46:14 +09:00
fetch.txt bundle-uri: store fetch.bundleCreationToken 2023-01-31 08:57:48 -08:00
filter.txt
fmt-merge-msg.txt config/fmt-merge-msg.txt: drop space in quote 2020-09-27 14:22:41 -07:00
format.txt format.attach: allow empty value to disable multi-part messages 2023-02-17 15:43:09 -08:00
fsck.txt fsck: document msg-id 2022-10-25 15:44:18 -07:00
fsmonitor--daemon.txt fsmonitor: add documentation for allowRemote and socketDir options 2022-10-05 11:05:23 -07:00
gc.txt builtin/gc.c: conditionally avoid pruning objects via loose 2022-05-26 15:48:26 -07:00
gitcvs.txt
gitweb.txt
gpg.txt signature-format.txt: note SSH and X.509 signature delimiters 2023-02-27 13:42:43 -08:00
grep.txt grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections 2022-09-07 09:46:05 -07:00
gui.txt docs: use "character encoding" to refer to commit-object encoding 2021-08-27 12:45:45 -07:00
guitool.txt
help.txt help.c: help.autocorrect=prompt waits for user action 2021-08-14 11:20:49 -07:00
http.txt i18n: fix mismatched camelCase config variables 2022-06-17 10:38:26 -07:00
i18n.txt
imap.txt
includeif.txt config.txt: document include, includeIf 2022-07-17 14:23:42 -07:00
index.txt read-cache: add index.skipHash config option 2023-01-07 07:46:14 +09:00
init.txt clone: respect remote unborn HEAD 2021-02-05 13:49:55 -08:00
instaweb.txt
interactive.txt checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore' 2019-05-07 13:04:47 +09:00
log.txt diff-merges: clarify log.diffMerges documentation 2022-09-16 09:21:44 -07:00
lsrefs.txt docs: move protocol-related docs to man section 5 2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
mailinfo.txt
mailmap.txt
maintenance.txt maintenance: incremental strategy runs pack-refs weekly 2021-02-09 23:09:29 -08:00
man.txt
merge.txt update documentation for new zdiff3 conflictStyle 2021-12-01 14:45:59 -08:00
mergetool.txt Merge branch 'nb/doc-mergetool-typofix' into maint-2.38 2022-10-25 17:11:38 -07:00
notes.txt notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections 2022-09-07 09:46:06 -07:00
pack.txt Merge branch 'ac/bitmap-lookup-table' 2022-09-05 18:33:39 -07:00
pager.txt
pretty.txt
protocol.txt Sync with 2.37.4 2022-10-06 20:00:04 -04:00
pull.txt pull: remove support for --rebase=preserve 2021-09-07 21:45:32 -07:00
push.txt Doc: document push.recurseSubmodules=only 2022-11-14 16:55:50 -05:00
rebase.txt rebase: add rebase.updateRefs config option 2022-07-19 12:49:04 -07:00
receive.txt receive-pack: new config receive.procReceiveRefs 2020-08-27 12:47:47 -07:00
remote.txt docs: mention --refetch fetch option 2022-03-28 10:25:53 -07:00
remotes.txt
repack.txt builtin/repack.c: allow configuring cruft pack generation 2022-05-26 15:48:26 -07:00
rerere.txt
revert.txt revert: config documentation fixes 2022-06-27 08:37:36 -07:00
safe.txt setup.c: create safe.bareRepository 2022-07-14 15:08:29 -07:00
sendemail.txt send-email docs: de-duplicate configuration sections 2022-09-07 09:46:05 -07:00
sequencer.txt
showbranch.txt
sparse.txt repo_read_index: add config to expect files outside sparse patterns 2022-03-01 23:37:48 -08:00
splitindex.txt
ssh.txt
stash.txt stash: remove documentation for stash.useBuiltin 2022-01-27 18:00:37 -08:00
status.txt status: add status.aheadbehind setting 2019-06-21 09:35:00 -07:00
submodule.txt branch: add --recurse-submodules option for branch creation 2022-02-04 08:16:39 -08:00
tag.txt separate tar.* config to its own source file 2020-03-18 12:42:09 -07:00
tar.txt separate tar.* config to its own source file 2020-03-18 12:42:09 -07:00
trace2.txt doc: fix some typos 2021-01-04 11:27:48 -08:00
transfer.txt bundle-uri client: add boolean transfer.bundleURI setting 2022-12-25 16:24:23 +09:00
uploadarchive.txt
uploadpack.txt Documentation: define protected configuration 2022-07-14 15:08:29 -07:00
url.txt
user.txt ssh signing: support non ssh-* keytypes 2021-11-19 09:05:25 -08:00
versionsort.txt
web.txt
worktree.txt