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Description:: Updates config without restarting. Attributes and classes can not be deleted unless delete is used. Changes to the config are applied to all new entities, a mission restart is not necessarily required. Spawning the vehicle again or switching weapons works too. Since 1.70 CfgAmmo should be mergeable as well.
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Merging a config with an include statement, that points to a non existing file, will crash the game.
Groups:: Diagnostic Config

Syntax:: diag_mergeConfigFile [path, userdir]
Parameters:: path: String - absolute or relative path
: userdir: Boolean - (Optional, default false) path is relative to the user directory, otherwise it is relative to the mission directory
Return Value:: Nothing

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 |descr= Updates config without restarting. Attributes and classes can not be deleted unless {{hl|[[Class Inheritance#delete|delete]]}} is used. Changes to the config are applied to all new entities, a mission restart is not necessarily required. Spawning the vehicle again or switching weapons works too. Since {{GVI|arma3|1.70}} CfgAmmo should be mergeable as well.
-{{Feature|Warning|Merging a config with an [[PreProcessor_Commands#.23include|include]] statement, that points to a non existing file, will crash the game.}}
+{{Feature|warning|Merging a config with an [[PreProcessor_Commands#.23include|include]] statement, that points to a non existing file, will crash the game.}}
 |s1= [[diag_mergeConfigFile]]  [path, userdir]
-|p1= path: [[String]] - Absolute or relative path
+|p1= path: [[String]] - absolute or relative path
-|p2= userdir: [[Boolean]] - (Optional, default [[false]]) Path is relative to the user directory, otherwise it is relative to the mission directory
+|p2= userdir: [[Boolean]] - (Optional, default [[false]]) path is relative to the user directory, otherwise it is relative to the mission directory
 |r1= [[Nothing]]