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config.txt: Make configuration paragraph more consistent
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By renaming 'information' to 'configuration' we capture more clearly
what a configuration file holds.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Stephen Boyd authored and Junio C Hamano committed Apr 23, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -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
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