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Clarify the location of the Windows-specific ProgramData config

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On Windows, there is no (single) `/etc/` directory. To address that, in
conjunction with the libgit2 project, Git for Windows introduced yet
another level of system-wide config files, located in C:\ProgramData
(and the equivalent on Windows XP).

Let's spell this out in the documentation.

This closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/470 (because
there was no reaction in three months in that Pull Request).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-16 15:21:45 +01:00
committed by Jameson Miller
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@@ -282,9 +282,12 @@ $GIT_DIR/config::
Repository specific configuration file.
On Windows, as there is no central `/etc/` directory, there is yet another
config file, intended to contain settings for *all* Git-related software
running on the machine. Consequently, this config file takes an even lower
precedence than the `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` file.
config file (located at `$PROGRAMDATA/Git/config`), intended to contain
settings for *all* Git-related software running on the machine. Consequently,
this config file takes an even lower precedence than the
`$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` file. Typically `$PROGRAMDATA` points to
`C:\ProgramData` (on Windows XP the equivalent in `$ALLUSERSPROFILE` is used,
i.e. `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Git\config`).
If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these
files that are available. If the global or the system-wide configuration