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Document where configuration files are in config.txt

Talking about what the files contain without talking about where
they are does not help new users.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano 18 years ago
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The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
the git command's behavior. They can be used by both the git plumbing
the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository
is used to store the information for that repository, and
`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give
fallback values for `.git/config` file.

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
dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last

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