Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 14.02.2013 16:36: > The old Git version where it appeared is not useful only to historians, > not to normal users. Also, the text was mentioning only the per-repo I do not think you meant to not remove so many nots ;) Besides, if history is uninteresting, then so is sociology: "familiar to some people" can go, too. > config file, so add a mention of ~/.gitconfig. Describing in details the > system-wide, XDG and all would be counter-productive here, so reword the Hmpf, I think this gives a way too prominent role to "~/.gitconfig". The config files most people will have to deal with are: - the repo config file - the one set by "config --global" And really, it would often be best if the latter was the XDG thing. So, I'm all for improving git.txt, but somewhat differently ;) > description of the link to git-config to make it clear that it is not > only a list of configuration options. > > Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/git.txt | 11 ++++++----- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt > index 0b681d9..e332947 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git.txt > @@ -535,10 +535,11 @@ include::cmds-purehelpers.txt[] > Configuration Mechanism > ----------------------- > > -Starting from 0.99.9 (actually mid 0.99.8.GIT), `.git/config` file > -is used to hold per-repository configuration options. It is a > -simple text file modeled after `.ini` format familiar to some > -people. Here is an example: > +Git uses a simple text file format modeled after `.ini` format > +familiar to some people to store its configuration. The `.git/config` > +file is used to hold per-repository configuration options, and > +per-user configuration can be stored in a `~/.gitconfig` file. > +Here is an example: > > ------------ > # > @@ -559,7 +560,7 @@ people. Here is an example: > > Various commands read from the configuration file and adjust > their operation accordingly. See linkgit:git-config[1] for a > -list. > +list and more details about the configuration mechanism. > > > Identifier Terminology > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html