| commit | d062e74fbc255aa2d33cb71321b322fc94ae6810 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Brett Wilson <brettw@chromium.org> | Wed Feb 27 09:36:10 2019 -0800 |
| committer | Commit Bot <commit-bot@chromium.org> | Wed Feb 27 18:10:42 2019 +0000 |
| tree | d56b38d2103c72d9085f842bb65a600727e262fa | |
| parent | e15f243a7af794b1bdc915885717749af853a3bb [diff] |
Improve config documentation. I've had several questions recently about why configs exist or what they're for. This adds some background to the config documentation that should help people understand why they are the way they are. Change-Id: I68c8e38d934520e65d2854201e73413f67531b47 Reviewed-on: https://gn-review.googlesource.com/c/4140 Reviewed-by: Julie Hockett <juliehockett@google.com> Commit-Queue: Brett Wilson <brettw@chromium.org>
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