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author | Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> | |
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:38:01 +0000 (02:38 -0700) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:53:31 +0000 (12:53 -0700) |
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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.
--------
-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.