From 2f56606d7243a60a66007d7026833aa9e69f847d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Henrik=20tom=20W=C3=B6rden?= <h.tomwoerden@indiscale.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:24:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: add treatment of deprecated files to docstring

---
 src/caosdb/configuration.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/caosdb/configuration.py b/src/caosdb/configuration.py
index 1327e17a..81642fd8 100644
--- a/src/caosdb/configuration.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/configuration.py
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ def _read_config_files():
 
     Read the config from either ``$PYCAOSDBINI`` or home directory (``~/.pylinkahead.ini``), and
     additionally adds config from a config file in the current working directory
-    (``pylinkahead.ini``).  All of these are optional.
+    (``pylinkahead.ini``).
+    If deprecated names are used (starting with 'pycaosdb'), those used in addition but the files
+    with the new naming scheme take precedence.
+    All of these files are optional.
 
     Returns
     -------
-- 
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