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Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
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As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'.  “diff commands such as
diff-files” scans better without a comma.  Clarify that shallow
and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather
than boolean values with some other name.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Jonathan Nieder authored and Thomas Rast committed Jan 10, 2010
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as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].

branch.autosetupmerge::
Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to setup new branches
Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches
so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the
starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
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contents in the work tree match the contents in the
index. This option defaults to true. Note that this
affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
'diff' commands, such as 'git diff-files'.
'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'.

diff.external::
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
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format.thread::
The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be
either a boolean value, `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow`
threading makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading
makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
`\--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.
`deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
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