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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 |
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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. |