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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2007-02-14 12:48:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-19 23:05:16 -0800 |
| commit | 32043c9f8c60fc03b0b6a324c559d98094729323 (patch) | |
| tree | add1d32a22e55a41cc20fbd562d8cb6f577770df /Documentation | |
| parent | 437b1b20df4b356c9342dac8d38849f24ef44f27 (diff) | |
| download | git-32043c9f8c60fc03b0b6a324c559d98094729323.tar.gz git-32043c9f8c60fc03b0b6a324c559d98094729323.tar.xz | |
config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig
The settings in /etc/gitconfig can be overridden in ~/.gitconfig,
which in turn can be overridden in .git/config.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 38655350f..1dd90d804 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository is used to store the information for that repository, and `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give -fallback values for `.git/config` file. +fallback values for `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` +can be used to store system-wide defaults. They can be used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where |