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[GSOC PATCH v2] doc: fix repo_config documentation reference

From
SoutrikDas <valusoutrik@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2026, 06:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20260206062108.74072-1-valusoutrik@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20260206060156.73753-1-valusoutrik@gmail.com>

In MyFirstContribution.adoc, the link to the repo_config() documentation is invalid because the related documentation was moved to a different file.

Replace the path for the repo_config() documentation from 'Documentation/technical/api-config.h' to 'config.h'.

Signed-off-by: SoutrikDas <valusoutrik@gmail.com>
---
Changes from v1 : 
Corrected Documentation Spelling
Added .h after api-config
Changed Commit message to suit git's style
---
 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
index f186dfbc89..92de476a7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ function body:
 apply standard precedence rules. `repo_config_get_string_tmp()` will look up
 a specific key ("user.name") and give you the value. There are a number of
 single-key lookup functions like this one; you can see them all (and more info
-about how to use `repo_config()`) in `Documentation/technical/api-config.adoc`.
+about how to use `repo_config()`) in `config.h`.
 
 You should see that the name printed matches the one you see when you run:
 
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