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authorJan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>2021-11-04 11:41:29 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-11-04 11:41:29 +0100
commite5d4c2235f08ca8bfa4aada4ad51b0ac4f212608 (patch)
tree256b0ecf28cbff078392c576488c07dd8f7f7162 /doc/manual/src
parentc5fd0b46ae56447d9d0a2028d464a5bbf753bf55 (diff)
docs: Correct fallback user config path
This is in line with XDG Base Directory Specification, where ~/.config is supposed to be used when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset. It also better matches the reality, where ~/.config/nix.conf does not seem to be used.
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md2
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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md
index 3140170ab..d660db502 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/conf-file-prefix.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ By default Nix reads settings from the following places:
Otherwise it will look for `nix/nix.conf` files in `XDG_CONFIG_DIRS`
and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`. If these are unset, it will look in
- `$HOME/.config/nix.conf`.
+ `$HOME/.config/nix/nix.conf`.
- If `NIX_CONFIG` is set, its contents is treated as the contents of
a configuration file.