From: Florian Achleitner Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 10:03:52 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2] Update Documentation/git-config to reflect --local option. Message-ID: <4557278.eakEfj5iWL@flomedio> In-Reply-To: <20120504032400.GB2589@burratino> 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 --- Updated with the formulation suggested by Junio. 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 81b0398..3f5d216 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: -- 1.7.9.5