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[RFC,v2,5/6] doc: Tell config.txt about namespace collisions

Message ID 20200525232727.21096-6-keni@his.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series various documentation bits | expand

Commit Message

Kenneth Lorber May 25, 2020, 11:27 p.m. UTC 
Add a link to the namespace collisions information where git help config
only mentioned the issue without supplying any guidance for how to do that.

Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lorber <keni@his.com>
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 Documentation/config.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ef0768b91a..1e819c26f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -310,7 +310,9 @@  in the appropriate manual page.
 Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables.  When
 inventing new variables for use in your own tool, make sure their
 names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and
-other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation.
+other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation.  See
+'NAMESPACE COLLISIONS' in linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for guidelines
+to prevent such conflicts.
 
 include::config/advice.txt[]