diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/intro.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/intro.adoc
index 3a7e4ac..b56c447 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/intro.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/intro.adoc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Cloud]. You can write Groovy scripts to run Spring Cloud component
 applications (e.g. `@EnableEurekaServer`). You can also easily do
 things like encryption and decryption to support Spring Cloud Config
 clients with secret configuration values. With the Launcher CLI you
-can also launch services like Eureka, Zipkin, Config Server
+can launch services like Eureka, Zipkin, Config Server
 conveniently all at once from the command line (very useful at
 development time).
 
diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-cli.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-cli.adoc
index d7f4f10..032d189 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-cli.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-cli.adoc
@@ -51,6 +51,23 @@ Summary of supported deployables:
 | Zipkin Server with UI for visualizing traces. Stores span data in memory and accepts them via HTTP POST of JSON data.
 |===
 
+Each of these apps can be configured using a local YAML file with the same name (in the current
+working directory or a subdirectory called "config"). E.g. in `configserver.yml` you might want to
+do something like this to locate a local git repository for the backend:
+
+.configserver.yml
+[source,yaml,indent=0]
+----
+spring:
+  profiles:
+    active: git
+  cloud:
+    config:
+      server:
+        git:
+          uri: file://${user.home}/dev/demo/config-repo
+----
+
 == Writing Groovy Scripts and Running Applications
 
 Spring Cloud CLI has support for most of the Spring Cloud declarative
diff --git a/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-cli/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/cli/LauncherCommand.java b/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-cli/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/cli/LauncherCommand.java
index e3236b8..5b61282 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-cli/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/cli/LauncherCommand.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-cli/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/cli/LauncherCommand.java
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ public class LauncherCommand extends OptionParsingCommand {
 
 		private OptionSpec<Void> debugOption;
 		private OptionSpec<Void> listOption;
-		private ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec<String> gitUriOption;
 
 		@Override
 		protected void options() {
@@ -85,7 +84,6 @@ public class LauncherCommand extends OptionParsingCommand {
 			// can create options and then populate the args[] that is sent to the DeployerThread
 			this.debugOption = option(Arrays.asList("debug", "d"), "Debug logging for the deployer");
 			this.listOption = option(Arrays.asList("list", "l"), "List the deployables (don't launch anything)");
-			this.gitUriOption = getParser().acceptsAll(Arrays.asList("git-uri", "g"), "URI for git repository for use with configserver").withRequiredArg();
 		}
 
 		@Override
@@ -126,9 +124,6 @@ public class LauncherCommand extends OptionParsingCommand {
 			if (options.has(this.debugOption)) {
 				args.add("--debug=true");
 			}
-			if (options.has(this.gitUriOption)) {
-				args.add("--git.uri=" + options.valueOf(this.gitUriOption));
-			}
 			if (options.has(this.listOption)) {
 				args.add("--launcher.list=true");
 			}
diff --git a/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-deployer/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/deployer/DeployerThread.java b/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-deployer/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/deployer/DeployerThread.java
index 18a3d17..b52dc00 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-deployer/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/deployer/DeployerThread.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-launcher/spring-cloud-launcher-deployer/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/launcher/deployer/DeployerThread.java
@@ -138,15 +138,15 @@ public class DeployerThread extends Thread {
 		PropertySource<?> source = null;
 		Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("config" + path, DeployerThread.class);
 		source = loadPropertySource(resource, path);
-		if (source==null) {			
+		if (source == null) {
 			resource = new ClassPathResource(path, DeployerThread.class);
 			source = loadPropertySource(resource, path);
 		}
-		if (source==null) {			
+		if (source == null) {
 			resource = new FileSystemResource("config" + path);
 			source = loadPropertySource(resource, path);
 		}
-		if (source==null) {			
+		if (source == null) {
 			resource = new FileSystemResource("." + path);
 			source = loadPropertySource(resource, path);
 		}
@@ -156,8 +156,9 @@ public class DeployerThread extends Thread {
 	private PropertySource<?> loadPropertySource(Resource resource, String path) {
 		if (resource.exists()) {
 			try {
-				PropertySource<?> source = new YamlPropertySourceLoader().load(path, resource, null);
-				if (source!=null) {
+				PropertySource<?> source = new YamlPropertySourceLoader().load(path,
+						resource, null);
+				if (source != null) {
 					logger.info("Loaded YAML properties from: " + resource);
 				}
 				return source;
@@ -261,12 +262,6 @@ public class DeployerThread extends Thread {
 		for (String key : map.keySet()) {
 			appDefProps.put(key, map.get(key));
 		}
-		if (deployable.getName().equals("configserver")
-				&& environment.containsProperty("git.uri")) {
-			appDefProps.put("spring.profiles.active", "git");
-			appDefProps.put("spring.cloud.config.server.git.uri",
-					environment.getRequiredProperty("git.uri"));
-		}
 
 		AppDefinition definition = new AppDefinition(deployable.getName(), appDefProps);