Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.8.3.2-804-g0da7a
diff --git a/git-config.html b/git-config.html index dc4907b..22fe946 100644 --- a/git-config.html +++ b/git-config.html
@@ -1090,20 +1090,11 @@ <em>git config</em> will search for configuration options:</p></div> <div class="dlist"><dl> <dt class="hdlist1"> -$GIT_DIR/config +$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig </dt> <dd> <p> - Repository specific configuration file. -</p> -</dd> -<dt class="hdlist1"> -~/.gitconfig -</dt> -<dd> -<p> - User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" - configuration file. + System-wide configuration file. </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> @@ -1120,11 +1111,20 @@ </p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> -$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig +~/.gitconfig </dt> <dd> <p> - System-wide configuration file. + User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" + configuration file. +</p> +</dd> +<dt class="hdlist1"> +$GIT_DIR/config +</dt> +<dd> +<p> + Repository specific configuration file. </p> </dd> </dl></div> @@ -1133,6 +1133,9 @@ file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository configuration file is not available or readable, <em>git config</em> will exit with a non-zero error code. However, in neither case will an error message be issued.</p></div> +<div class="paragraph"><p>The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking +precedence over values read earlier. When multiple values are taken then all +values of a key from all files will be used.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file. Note that this also affects options like <em>--replace-all</em> and <em>--unset</em>. <strong><em>git config</em> will only ever change one file at a time</strong>.</p></div> @@ -5855,7 +5858,7 @@ <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> -Last updated 2013-07-03 17:43:56 PDT +Last updated 2013-07-12 15:46:35 PDT </div> </div> </body>