fsck: support comments & empty lines in skipList

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 161ffe259ede42041d883ead016ce5c580e55275..0906db3a990208d1cd071e59d4e00c2bbe02fe0f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1712,8 +1712,9 @@ will only cause git to warn.
 fsck.skipList::
        The path to a list of object names (i.e. one unabbreviated SHA-1 per
        line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
-       be ignored. Comments ('#') and empty lines are not supported, and
-       will error out.
+       be ignored. On versions of Git 2.20 and later comments ('#'), empty
+       lines, and any leading and trailing whitespace is ignored. Everything
+       but a SHA-1 per line will error out on older versions.
 +
 This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted
 despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored