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| author | Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> | 2009-04-23 02:38:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-04-23 12:53:32 -0700 |
| commit | 66e35fcb79cad5a2ec2366da956db55da855b20d (patch) | |
| tree | dd8007fabfc4a505404369f87ae06119ddcdb83c /Documentation | |
| parent | b7ee2266fe2d8593d4c2affdc3361836ce826230 (diff) | |
| download | git-66e35fcb79cad5a2ec2366da956db55da855b20d.tar.gz git-66e35fcb79cad5a2ec2366da956db55da855b20d.tar.xz | |
config.txt: Make configuration paragraph more consistent
By renaming 'information' to 'configuration' we capture more clearly
what a configuration file holds.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 01b752cd3..31885690f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository -is used to store the information for that repository, and -`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information as +is used to store the configuration for that repository, and +`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` -can be used to store system-wide defaults. +can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein |