improve fetch-pack's handling of kept packs

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt b/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt
index 660c18ff8d6074ad8e93e5eca0805f157dd2e592..8199615dde6630124c155bb4a296603dc8829c83 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt
@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@ git-repo-config(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-repo-config - Get and set options in .git/config
+git-repo-config - Get and set repository or global options.
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-repo-config' [type] name [value [value_regex]]
-'git-repo-config' [type] --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
-'git-repo-config' [type] --get name [value_regex]
-'git-repo-config' [type] --get-all name [value_regex]
-'git-repo-config' [type] --unset name [value_regex]
-'git-repo-config' [type] --unset-all name [value_regex]
-'git-repo-config' -l | --list
+'git-repo-config' [--global] [type] name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-repo-config' [--global] [type] --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
+'git-repo-config' [--global] [type] --get name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' [--global] [type] --get-all name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' [--global] [type] --unset name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' [--global] [type] --unset-all name [value_regex]
+'git-repo-config' [--global] -l | --list
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -41,20 +41,22 @@ This command will fail if:
 . Can not write to .git/config,
 . no section was provided,
 . the section or key is invalid,
-. you try to unset an option which does not exist, or
-. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match.
+. you try to unset an option which does not exist,
+. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match, or
+. you use --global option without $HOME being properly set.
 
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
 --replace-all::
-       Default behaviour is to replace at most one line. This replaces
+       Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This replaces
        all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex).
 
 --get::
        Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex
-       matching the value).
+       matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not
+       found and error code 2 if multiple key values were found.
 
 --get-all::
        Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key
@@ -63,14 +65,30 @@ OPTIONS
 --get-regexp::
        Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression.
 
+--global::
+       Use global ~/.gitconfig file rather than the repository .git/config.
+
 --unset::
-       Remove the line matching the key from .git/config.
+       Remove the line matching the key from config file.
 
 --unset-all::
-       Remove all matching lines from .git/config.
+       Remove all matching lines from config file.
 
 -l, --list::
-       List all variables set in .git/config.
+       List all variables set in config file.
+
+
+ENVIRONMENT
+-----------
+
+GIT_CONFIG::
+       Take the configuration from the given file instead of .git/config.
+       Using the "--global" option forces this to ~/.gitconfig.
+
+GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL::
+       Currently the same as $GIT_CONFIG; when Git will support global
+       configuration files, this will cause it to take the configuration
+       from the global configuration file in addition to the given file.
 
 
 EXAMPLE
@@ -107,8 +125,8 @@ you can set the filemode to true with
 % git repo-config core.filemode true
 ------------
 
-The hypothetic proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
-to what URL they apply. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
+The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
+what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
 to "ssh".
 
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