Give more details on Windows system-level config file. - #428
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Let's reword this a bit.
If you are using Git for Windows 2.x or later, there is also a system-level config file at
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Git\configon Windows XP, orC:\ProgramData\Git\configon Windows Vista and newer. This config file can only be changed bygit config -f <file>.
By the way, is that last line correct? You can't launch wordpad as an admin to edit it?
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Thanks for the rewording!
You are of course right about using notepad as an admin to edit this config file,
but as we didn't tell the user at all about the possibility to directly edit config files
with notepad in this section only the fact that you have to be admin to call
'git config' successfully in this case should be added.
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Yeah, I guess that fits in then. Power users will figure out how to sudo vi the file. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <[email protected]>
Give more details on Windows system-level config file.
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann [email protected]