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[PATCH] doc: fix repo_config documentation reference

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SGSoutrik Das via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2026, 12:03 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.2187.git.git.1770293021383.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: SoutrikDas <valusoutrik@gmail.com>

Since documentation was moved from Documenation/ technical/api-config to inside the config.h This might help newcomers, by pointing them to the right place to get documentation about repo_config

Signed-off-by: SoutrikDas <valusoutrik@gmail.com>
---
    doc: fix repo_config documentation reference
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2187%2FSoutrikDas%2Fdoc-fix-myfirstcontribution-config-ref-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2187/SoutrikDas/doc-fix-myfirstcontribution-config-ref-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2187
 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:
 

base-commit: b2826b52eb7caff9f4ed6e85ec45e338bf02ad09
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  1. doc: fix repo_config documentation referenceSoutrik Das via GitGitGadget, Feb 5, 2026
  2. Shreyansh PaliwalFeb 5, 2026
  3. SoutrikDasFeb 6, 2026
  4. doc: fix repo_config documentation referenceSoutrikDas, Feb 6, 2026
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2026

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