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Minor clarifications to global.conf page #2264

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Minor clarifications to global.conf page
chausner-audeering Oct 14, 2021
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Grammar fix
chausner-audeering Oct 14, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,14 @@ global.conf
This new configuration mechanism is an **experimental** feature subject to breaking changes in future releases.


The **global.conf** file is located in the Conan user home directory.
By default, the **global.conf** file does not exist but may be created by the user in the Conan user home directory.
Conan expects the file to be a simple list of key-value settings, with one setting per line. E.g.:

.. code-block:: text

core:default_profile=default
tools.microsoft.msbuild:max_cpu_count=20
tools.files.download:retry=3

Global configuration
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Expand All @@ -25,7 +32,7 @@ Tools configurations
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Tools and user configurations allows them to be defined both in the *global.conf* file and in profile files. Profile values will
have priority over globally defined ones in *global.conf*, and can be defined as:
have priority over globally defined ones in *global.conf*, and can be defined in the profile as:

.. code-block:: text

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