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config-labels: Add clarification about label inheritence 

Clarify that when modifying an inherited label, all its properties
must be redefined.

See [1] for an example of problems occurring due to this limitation
not being well documented.

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=512468

Change-Id: I0f809e197b908af73cfd42d7d8e64e62dcb3167e
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David Pursehouse 2017-02-28 16:35:27 +09:00
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@ -151,10 +151,15 @@ labels are defined in `All-Projects`.
=== Inheritance
Labels are inherited from parent projects. A child project may add,
override, or remove labels defined in its parents. Overriding a label
in a child project overrides all its properties and values. To remove
a label in a child project, add an empty label with the same name as
in the parent.
override, or remove labels defined in its parents.
Overriding a label in a child project overrides all its properties and
values. It is not possible to modify an inherited label by adding
properties in the child project's configuration; all properties from
the parent definition must be redefined in the child.
To remove a label in a child project, add an empty label with the same
name as in the parent.
[[label_layout]]
=== Layout