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Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'. “diff commands such as diff-files” scans better without a comma. Clarify that shallow and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather than boolean values with some other name. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
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branch.autosetupmerge::
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Tells 'git-branch' and 'git-checkout' to setup new branches
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Tells 'git-branch' and 'git-checkout' to set up new branches
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so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the
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starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
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this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
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contents in the work tree match the contents in the
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index. This option defaults to true. Note that this
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affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
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'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'.
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'diff' commands such as 'git-diff-files'.
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diff.external::
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If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
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format.thread::
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The default threading style for 'git-format-patch'. Can be
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either a boolean value, `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow`
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threading makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
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a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading
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makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
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where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
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`\--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.
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`deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.

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