Merge branch 'master' (early part) into pd/bash-4-completion

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

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 538ebb5e2ecc58f1ddcb7adb44ded3b027555ec2..e15b40d910ee31e4da49b4caeea5da221ed49d2b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -554,9 +554,13 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
        linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
 
 add.ignore-errors::
+add.ignoreErrors::
        Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
        added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
-       option of linkgit:git-add[1].
+       option of linkgit:git-add[1].  Older versions of git accept only
+       `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming
+       convention for configuration variables.  Newer versions of git
+       honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well.
 
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.