On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks, the new text looks good to me. Please follow SubmittingPatches > (notably, you need to sign-off your work, and please send patches inline > rather than as attachments). Ah, didn't see that file. >From 6e1fc126ece37c6201d0c16b76c6c87781f7b02b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:45:08 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Explain that third-party tools may create 'git config' variables Signed-off-by: Chris Angelico <rosuav@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 73c8973..23f0466 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -131,8 +131,9 @@ Variables Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete. For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description -in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core -porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation. +in the appropriate manual page. Other git-related tools may define their own +variables, which will be defined on their respective manual pages; ideally, +these will be named in some way to indicate the project or creator. advice.*:: These variables control various optional help messages designed to -- 1.7.10.4 Made that patch off master, which is currently basically the same as maint anyway. ChrisA -- 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