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[git.git] / Documentation / git-config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 88acf6ce982693a655f8f606275eee18368a0a37..a592b61e2fe998525d0978547b3ea7e4ad2d72ac 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ git-config - Get and set repository or global options
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [type] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [type] --add name value
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [type] --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] --unset name [value_regex]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] --unset-all name [value_regex]
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] --rename-section old_name new_name
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] --remove-section name
-'git-config' [--system | --global | [-f|--file] config-file] [-z|--null] -l | --list
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [type] --add name value
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [type] --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex]
+'git-config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
+'git-config' [<file-option>] --remove-section name
+'git-config' [<file-option>] [-z|--null] -l | --list
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int,
 a "true" or "false" string for bool).  If no type specifier is passed,
 no checks or transformations are performed on the value.
 
+The file-option can be one of '--system', '--global' or '--file'
+which specify where the values will be read from or written to.
+The default is to assume the config file of the current repository,
+.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG
+(see <<FILES>>).
+
 This command will fail if:
 
 . The config file is invalid,
@@ -133,10 +139,10 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
 FILES
 -----
 
-There are three files where git-config will search for configuration
-options:
+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.)
@@ -208,9 +214,7 @@ Given a .git/config like this:
 
        ; Proxy settings
        [core]
-               gitproxy="ssh" for "ssh://kernel.org/"
                gitproxy="proxy-command" for kernel.org
-               gitproxy="myprotocol-command" for "my://"
                gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
 
 you can set the filemode to true with
@@ -285,7 +289,7 @@ To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
 To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use
 
 ------------
-% git config core.gitproxy '"proxy" for example.com'
+% git config core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
 ------------