On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 05:25:22PM +0000, Tanay Abhra wrote: > I have gone through commit.c, builtin/commit.c and api-config.txt but one > thing I cannot find is which functions handle writing config file to disk > after adding a new variable,value pair(for example git config my.option > true) . It is also marked TODO on the api-config.txt file. Can somebody help > me , I just want the starting function and will trace the function calls > after that. Try starting in cmd_config (in builtin/config.c), the main entry point for running "git config", and you should be able to trace it from there. The main logic ends up in the git_config_set_* functions. -Peff -- 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