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Update nginx docs of opentelemetry_propagate (#166)
Adds a caveat about the opentelemetry_propagate inheritance rules.
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Enable propagation of distributed tracing headers, e.g. `traceparent`. When no parent trace is given, a new trace will
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be started. The default propagator is W3C.
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The same inheritance rules as [`proxy_set_header`](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_set_header) apply, which means this directive is applied at the current configuration level if and only if there are no `proxy_set_header` directives defined on a lower level.
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- **required**: `false`
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- **syntax**: `opentelemetry_propagate` or `opentelemetry_propagate b3`
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- **block**: `http`, `server`, `location`

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