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Re: Configuring a third-party git hook

From: Chris Angelico <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:00:24
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
Thanks, the new text looks good to me. Please follow SubmittingPatches
(notably, you need to sign-off your work, and please send patches inline
rather than as attachments).
Ah, didn't see that file.
From 6e1fc126ece37c6201d0c16b76c6c87781f7b02b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Angelico <redacted>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:45:08 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Explain that third-party tools may create 'git config'
 variables

Signed-off-by: Chris Angelico <redacted>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 73c8973..23f0466 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -131,8 +131,9 @@ Variables

 Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete.
 For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description
-in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core
-porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.
+in the appropriate manual page. Other git-related tools may define their own
+variables, which will be defined on their respective manual pages; ideally,
+these will be named in some way to indicate the project or creator.

 advice.*::
  These variables control various optional help messages designed to
-- 
1.7.10.4


Made that patch off master, which is currently basically the same as
maint anyway.

ChrisA
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