Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > That seems like the most sensible place, as that is where we should > cover the order of reading and precedence. Perhaps FILES should be > renamed to SOURCES or something (though I do not recall if we are > restricted to "usual" manpage section names or not). > > Arguably this is not about git-config the program at all, but the > general concept of "configuration for git", because the precedence rules > apply equally to all of the git programs that read config. True, but that argument leads us to say git(1) is the best place ;-) If the user wants to know "how does the configuration values get read?", and wishes not having to go around fishing for the information in multiple places (and I think that is a reasonable thing to wish for), I think adding it to the FILES section of git-config(1) is a better option than inventing a separate gitconfig(7), which would still require the user to consult two places. -- 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