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+    <title>CONFIGURATION FILES</title>
+    <para>Four configuration files are parsed to set defaults for the above
+    commandline arguments: </para>
+    <variablelist>
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>/etc/git-buildpackage/gbp.conf</term>
+      <listitem><para>system wide configuraton</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>~/.gbp.conf</term>
+      <listitem><para>per user configuration</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>.gbp.conf</term>
+      <listitem><para>per branch configuration, can be published with the
+      repository</para></listitem> 
+      </varlistentry> 
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>.git/gbp.conf</term>
+      <listitem><para>per repository configuration</para></listitem> 
+      </varlistentry> 
+    </variablelist>
+      <para>
+      See <filename>/etc/git-buildpackage/gbp.conf</filename> for an example.
+      </para>