Merge branch 'master' into js/diff-ni

* master: (201 commits)
  Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
  Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
  GIT 1.5.0.2
  git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
  Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
  diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
  merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
  Update tests to use test-chmtime
  Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
  Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
  Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
  rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
  rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
  Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
  diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
  Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
  Limit filename for format-patch
  core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
  ...

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diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index f2c156cde9..b5b1cf5edc 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -516,6 +516,36 @@ sub config {
 }
 
 
+=item config_boolean ( VARIABLE )
+
+Retrieve the boolean configuration C<VARIABLE>.
+
+Must be called on a repository instance.
+
+This currently wraps command('config') so it is not so fast.
+
+=cut
+
+sub config_boolean {
+	my ($self, $var) = @_;
+	$self->repo_path()
+		or throw Error::Simple("not a repository");
+
+	try {
+		return $self->command_oneline('config', '--bool', '--get',
+					      $var);
+	} catch Git::Error::Command with {
+		my $E = shift;
+		if ($E->value() == 1) {
+			# Key not found.
+			return undef;
+		} else {
+			throw $E;
+		}
+	};
+}
+
+
 =item ident ( TYPE | IDENTSTR )
 
 =item ident_person ( TYPE | IDENTSTR | IDENTARRAY )