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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: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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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