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@tacker66 tacker66 commented Oct 4, 2015

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann th.acker@arcor.de

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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\config on Windows XP, or C:\ProgramData\Git\config on Windows Vista and newer. This config file can only be changed by git 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 <th.acker@arcor.de>
ben added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 6, 2015
Give more details on Windows system-level config file.
@ben ben merged commit 54b82a1 into progit:master Oct 6, 2015
@tacker66 tacker66 deleted the git-for-windows branch October 7, 2015 17:58
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