Ask HN: What is the best config file documentation you have seen?

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  • freebsd

    FreeBSD's source with custom patches (by lattera)

    • FreeBSD’s config files spring to mind. Here is an example:

    https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/etc/defaults/...

  • dhall-lang

    Maintainable configuration files

    • Dhall has a great landing page (https://dhall-lang.org/), nice docs, and also a great philosophy of preventing errors through correct design:

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