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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2012-05-25 13:12:04 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-25 11:22:02 -0700 |
| commit | ec84e069afd7845b1d6bb37d2aaefa913b0e0141 (patch) | |
| tree | e1435dcfcc0e882f732c68d8ad8f63beb6feb3d5 /Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | |
| parent | Update draft release notes to 1.7.10.3 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ec84e069afd7845b1d6bb37d2aaefa913b0e0141.tar.xz | |
config doc: remove confusion about relative GIT_DIR from FILES section
From the FILES section of the git-config(1) manual:
$GIT_DIR/config::
Repository specific configuration file. (The filename is
of course relative to the repository root, not the working
directory.)
That's confusing because $GIT_DIR really is relative to the working
directory.
$ GIT_DIR=.git GIT_EDITOR='pwd; echo editing'
$ export GIT_DIR GIT_EDITOR
$ git config --edit --local
/home/jrn/src/git/Documentation
editing .git/config
It turns out that the comment is a remnant from older days when the
heading said ".git/config" (which is indeed relative to the top of the
worktree).
It was only when the heading was changed to refer more precisely to
<git dir>/config (see v1.5.3.2~18, AsciiDoc tweak to avoid leading
dot, 2007-09-14) that the parenthesis stopped making sense. Remove
it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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