Documentation/config.txt: have a separate "Values" section

The various types of values set to the configuration variables
deserve more than a brief footnote mention in the syntax section,
and it will be more so after the later steps of this clean up
effort.

Move the mention of booleans from the syntax section to this new
section, and describe how human-readble integers can be spelled with
scaling there.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2015-03-04 10:57:43 -08:00
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@ -75,14 +75,6 @@ The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
and `\b` for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal
char sequences are valid.
The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either
a string, an integer, or a boolean. Boolean values may be given as yes/no,
1/0, true/false or on/off. Case is not significant in boolean values, when
converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier;
'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".
Some variables may require a special value format.
Includes
~~~~~~~~
@ -124,6 +116,37 @@ Example
path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file
path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory
Values
~~~~~~
Values of many variables are treated as a simple string, but there
are variables that take values of specific types and there are rules
as to how to spell them.
boolean::
When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many
synonyms are accepted for 'true' and 'false'; these are all
case-insensitive.
true;; Boolean true can be spelled as `yes`, `on`, `true`,
or `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= <value>`
is taken as true.
false;; Boolean false can be spelled as `no`, `off`,
`false`, or `0`.
+
When converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type
specifier; 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or
"false" (spelled in lowercase).
integer::
The value for many variables that specify various sizes can
be suffixed with `k`, `M`,... to mean "scale the number by
1024", "by 1024x1024", etc.
Variables
~~~~~~~~~