# Re: [PATCH] Tiny fix in git-config manual 1 messages from 2007-09-14 to 2007-09-14. Participants: Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9846 ## Junio C Hamano, 2007-09-14 21:48 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tiny fix in git-config manual Message-ID: <7vbqc4apgu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vbqc4apgu.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <200709102307.02468.bramschoenmakers@xs4all.nl> ``` Bram Schoenmakers writes: > A little problem is shown in the git-config manual, where the possible > locations for the configuration files is to be found. The dot is a special > character and hence not visible in the resulting documents. This patch > fixes this by adding an additional whitespace. Thanks, but depending on the docbook stylesheet version this does not seem to do anything or does not seem to fix the issue. As we usually refer the repository metadata directory $GIT_DIR, I am inclined to do this instead. --- Documentation/git-config.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 5b794f4..a592b61 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ FILES If not set explicitly with '--file', there are three files where git-config will search for configuration options: -.git/config:: +$GIT_DIR/config:: Repository specific configuration file. (The filename is of course relative to the repository root, not the working directory.) ```