core.whitespace: documentation updates.

This adds description of core.whitespace to the manual page of git-config,
and updates the stale description of whitespace handling in the manual
page of git-apply.

Also demote "strip" to a synonym status for "fix" as the value of --whitespace
option given to git-apply.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index edf50cd21..0e711374d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -293,6 +293,20 @@ core.pager::
 	The command that git will use to paginate output.  Can be overridden
 	with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable.
 
+core.whitespace::
+	A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
+	notice.  `git diff` will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
+	highlight them, and `git apply --whitespace=error` will
+	consider them as errors:
++
+* `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
+  as an error (enabled by default).
+* `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
+  before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
+  error (enabled by default).
+* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
+  space characters that can be replaced with tab characters.
+
 alias.*::
 	Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
 	after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
@@ -378,8 +392,8 @@ color.diff.<slot>::
 	which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
 	of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
 	(hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines),
-	`commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting dubious
-	whitespace).  The values of these variables may be specified as
+	`commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting
+	whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as
 	in color.branch.<slot>.
 
 color.pager::