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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:23:21 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> Have you read "man git-config" lately?

That whole program is there just for scripting. Of _course_ it talks about 
the machine format!

Nobody should ever use "git-config" normally. You should fire up your 
editor and just edit the damn file in place. But no, we don't have a 
man-page for that.

		Linus