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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt index f428c5c486..01f64d187f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ General Usage Config files are parsed linearly, and each variable found is passed to a caller-provided callback function. The callback function is responsible for any actions to be taken on the config option, and is free to ignore -some options (it is not uncommon for the configuration to be parsed +some options. It is not uncommon for the configuration to be parsed several times during the run of a git program, with different callbacks -picking out different variables useful to themselves). +picking out different variables useful to themselves. A config callback function takes three parameters: @@ -47,11 +47,12 @@ will first feed the user-wide one to the callback, and then the repo-specific one; by overwriting, the higher-priority repo-specific value is left at the end). -There is a special version of `git_config` called `git_config_early` -that takes an additional parameter to specify the repository config. -This should be used early in a git program when the repository location -has not yet been determined (and calling the usual lazy-evaluation -lookup rules would yield an incorrect location). +There is a special version of `git_config` called `git_config_early`. +This version takes an additional parameter to specify the repository +config, instead of having it looked up via `git_path`. This is useful +early in a git program before the repository has been found. Unless +you're working with early setup code, you probably don't want to use +this. Reading Specific Files ---------------------- |