Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> With a weaker phrase, e.g. "These configuration variables may be of
>> interest", such a list may not hurt readers, but personally I do not
>> think it adds much value to have a list of variables without even a
>> single line description of what each is used for.
>
> Okay.  Does this work?

Hrm, is it useful without even a single line description of what
each is used for?

Besides, how does it appear in the formatted documents?  A thick
paragraph that lists names of variables enumerated without comma in
between?

> -- 8< --
> From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:24:36 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-push: add a configuration variables
>  section
>
> The list of configuration variables that affect the operation of a git
> command can often be hard to find.  As a first step, add a
> "Configuration variables" section to git-push.  The intent is to
> create similar sections in all manpages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-push.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> index cb97cc1..a125536 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> @@ -426,6 +426,30 @@ Commits A and B would no longer belong to a
> branch with a sy
>  and so would be unreachable.  As such, these commits would be removed by
>  a `git gc` command on the origin repository.
>
> +Configuration variables
> +-----------------------
> +
> +These configuration variables may be of interest.  For more
> +information see linkgit:git-config[1].
> +
> +branch.<name>.remote
> +core.gitProxy
> +http.proxy
> +push.default
> +receive.autogc
> +receive.denyCurrentBranch
> +receive.denyDeleteCurrent
> +receive.denyDeletes
> +receive.denyNonFastForwards
> +receive.unpackLimit
> +receive.updateserverinfo
> +remote.<name>.mirror
> +remote.<name>.proxy
> +remote.<name>.push
> +remote.<name>.pushurl
> +remote.<name>.receivepack
> +remote.<name>.url
> +
>  GIT
>  ---
>  Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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