global/git
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/git/git.git synced 2026-01-17 22:26:32 +00:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Improve documentation for C:\ProgramData\Git\config

Browse Source 
Move the description for the additional Git for Windows configuration file
into the right place, so that the following descriptions of the read priority
also covers this file correctly.

Also make it clear, what file `git config --system` selects.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andreas Heiduk
2017-05-15 23:39:51 +02:00
committed by Johannes Schindelin
parent 828cdc96e5
commit ca9ab29038
1 changed files with 8 additions and 7 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

15
Documentation/git-config.txt
View File

@@ -263,8 +263,16 @@ FILES
If not set explicitly with `--file`, there are four files where
'git config' will search for configuration options:
$PROGRAMDATA/Git/config::
(Windows-only) System-wide configuration file shared with other Git
implementations. Typically `$PROGRAMDATA` points to `C:\ProgramData`.
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig::
System-wide configuration file.
(Windows-only) This file contains only the settings which are
specific for this installation of Git for Windows and which should
not be shared with other Git implementations like JGit, libgit2.
`--system` will select this file.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config::
Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set
@@ -281,13 +289,6 @@ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config::
$GIT_DIR/config::
Repository specific configuration file.
On Windows, as there is no central `/etc/` directory, there is yet another
config file (located at `$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`.
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
file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository configuration