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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt index 9a778b0..fa39ac9 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-config.txt @@ -47,21 +47,23 @@ will first feed the user-wide one to the callback, and then the repo-specific one; by overwriting, the higher-priority repo-specific value is left at the end). -The `git_config_with_options` function lets the caller examine config +The `config_with_options` function lets the caller examine config while adjusting some of the default behavior of `git_config`. It should almost never be used by "regular" Git code that is looking up configuration variables. It is intended for advanced callers like `git-config`, which are intentionally tweaking the normal config-lookup process. It takes two extra parameters: -`filename`:: -If this parameter is non-NULL, it specifies the name of a file to -parse for configuration, rather than looking in the usual files. Regular -`git_config` defaults to `NULL`. +`config_source`:: +If this parameter is non-NULL, it specifies the source to parse for +configuration, rather than looking in the usual files. See `struct +git_config_source` in `config.h` for details. Regular `git_config` defaults +to `NULL`. -`respect_includes`:: -Specify whether include directives should be followed in parsed files. -Regular `git_config` defaults to `1`. +`opts`:: +Specify options to adjust the behavior of parsing config files. See `struct +config_options` in `config.h` for details. As an example: regular `git_config` +sets `opts.respect_includes` to `1` by default. Reading Specific Files ---------------------- |