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Document the Windows-wide config file
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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Documentation/config.txt

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@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ the Git commands' behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository
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is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
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`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as
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fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
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can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
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can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. On Windows,
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configuration can also be stored in `C:\ProgramData\Git\config`; This
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file will be used also by libgit2-based software.
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The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing
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and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein

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