From c598c5aa01c9a6a877986ac4a99074fc65445141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Achleitner Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 12:03:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-config: describe and clarify "--local " option Describe config file selection in git-config. While the usage message of git-config shows --local, the documentation page did not contain anything about that. Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-config.txt | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index e7ecf5d80..800a5cd79 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ a "true" or "false" string for bool), or '--path', which does some path expansion (see '--path' below). If no type specifier is passed, no checks or transformations are performed on the value. -The file-option can be one of '--system', '--global' or '--file' -which specify where the values will be read from or written to. -The default is to assume the config file of the current repository, -.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG -(see <>). +When reading, the values are read from the system, global and +repository local configuration files by default, and options +'--system', '--global', '--local' and '--file ' can be +used to tell the command to read from only that location (see <>). + +When writing, the new value is written to the repository local +configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global', +'--file ' can be used to tell the command to write to +that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default). This command will fail (with exit code ret) if: -- 2.26.2