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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
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@@ -317,24 +317,26 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
= true).
core.worktree::
- Set the path to the root of the work tree.
+ Set the path to the root of the working tree.
This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
- variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. It can be
- an absolute path or a relative path to the .git directory,
- either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically
- discovered.
- If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
+ variable and the '--work-tree' command line option.
+ The value can an absolute path or relative to the path to
+ the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
+ or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
+ If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
--work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
- the current working directory is regarded as the root of the
- work tree.
+ the current working directory is regarded as the top level
+ of your working tree.
+
Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
-file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory, and its value differs
+file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory and its value differs
from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
-misconfiguration. Running git commands in "/path/to" directory will
+misconfiguration. Running git commands in the "/path/to" directory will
still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
-great confusion to the users.
+confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you are creating a
+read-only snapshot of the same index to a location different from the
+repository's usual working tree).
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
@@ -899,7 +901,7 @@ diff.wordRegex::
fetch.recurseSubmodules::
A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the
- default is to not recursively fetch populated sumodules unless
+ default is to not recursively fetch populated submodules unless
configured otherwise.
fetch.unpackLimit::
@@ -1818,7 +1820,7 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this
- submodule. It can be overriden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
+ submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
file.