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Documentation/git-config: describe and clarify "--local <file>" option
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Describe config file selection in git-config.  While the usage message of
git-config shows --local, the documentation page did not contain anything
about that.

Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Florian Achleitner authored and Junio C Hamano committed May 7, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ a "true" or "false" string for bool), or '--path', which does some
path expansion (see '--path' below). If no type specifier is passed, no
checks or transformations are performed on the value.

The file-option can be one of '--system', '--global' or '--file'
which specify where the values will be read from or written to.
The default is to assume the config file of the current repository,
.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG
(see <<FILES>>).
When reading, the values are read from the system, global and
repository local configuration files by default, and options
'--system', '--global', '--local' and '--file <filename>' can be
used to tell the command to read from only that location (see <<FILES>>).

When writing, the new value is written to the repository local
configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global',
'--file <filename>' can be used to tell the command to write to
that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default).

This command will fail (with exit code ret) if:

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