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| author | Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner2.6.31@gmail.com> | 2012-05-05 12:03:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-07 15:27:56 -0700 |
| commit | c598c5aa01c9a6a877986ac4a99074fc65445141 (patch) | |
| tree | 4059911cad8a9b795c71cd645217fbcaf3c3875a /Documentation/git-config.txt | |
| parent | f174a2583c9f42315b60205890fa67a79a1f1669 (diff) | |
| download | git-c598c5aa01c9a6a877986ac4a99074fc65445141.tar.gz | |
Documentation/git-config: describe and clarify "--local <file>" option
Describe config file selection in git-config. While the usage message of
git-config shows --local, the documentation page did not contain anything
about that.
Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-config.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index e7ecf5d803..800a5cd79d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ a "true" or "false" string for bool), or '--path', which does some path expansion (see '--path' below). If no type specifier is passed, no checks or transformations are performed on the value. -The file-option can be one of '--system', '--global' or '--file' -which specify where the values will be read from or written to. -The default is to assume the config file of the current repository, -.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG -(see <<FILES>>). +When reading, the values are read from the system, global and +repository local configuration files by default, and options +'--system', '--global', '--local' and '--file <filename>' can be +used to tell the command to read from only that location (see <<FILES>>). + +When writing, the new value is written to the repository local +configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global', +'--file <filename>' can be used to tell the command to write to +that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default). This command will fail (with exit code ret) if: |