Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable

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

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6a6c0b5bd83774c9c92f5530f327019c322d3c2a..7aff5ce2c8fd65c3b845383d70f17f39525a3d28 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -513,6 +513,9 @@ core.whitespace::
   part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
   does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
   is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
+* `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
+  is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when git fixes `tab-in-indent`
+  errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
 
 core.fsyncobjectfiles::
        This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.