From: Stephen Boyd Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:38:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: config.txt: Make configuration paragraph more consistent X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3-rc2~7 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=66e35fcb79cad5a2ec2366da956db55da855b20d;p=git.git config.txt: Make configuration paragraph more consistent By renaming 'information' to 'configuration' we capture more clearly what a configuration file holds. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 01b752cd3..31885690f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the git command's behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository -is used to store the information for that repository, and -`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information as +is used to store the configuration for that repository, and +`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` -can be used to store system-wide defaults. +can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein