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authorLibravatar Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>2009-04-23 02:38:01 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-23 12:53:31 -0700
commitb7ee2266fe2d8593d4c2affdc3361836ce826230 (patch)
tree569a3ca23c1b678ab4483ca127e9fbb9cb70fef2
parentconfig.txt: add missing 'the's and make words plural (diff)
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config.txt: clarify sentences in the configuration and syntax sections
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 5bff4005fc..01b752cd3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ is used to store the information for that repository, and
fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
can be used to store system-wide defaults.
-They can be used by both the git plumbing
-and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where
-in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last
+The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing
+and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
+the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last
dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric
characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ in the section header, like in the example below:
--------
-Subsection names can contain any character except newline (doublequote
-`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
-respectively) and are case sensitive. Section headers cannot span multiple
+Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
+newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
+respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to.