From: Florian Achleitner Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 22:44:21 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Update Documentation/git-config to reflect --local option. Message-ID: <1754870.q6d2rgDqBT@flobuntu> 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 --- This was pointed out in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version- control.git/196326 Documentation/git-config.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 81b0398..bda8bbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -44,10 +44,13 @@ 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' +The file-option can be one of '--system', '--global', '--local', 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 +.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG. +For read commands like '--get' the default is to search local, global, and +system config files (in this order) for the requested value and stop after +the first finding. (see <>). This command will fail (with exit code ret) if: -- 1.7.9.5