From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:42:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 8/8] user-manual: simplify the user configuration
Message-ID: <0A3F8ECD-EEFA-4DB0-AFED-AEE7DAFE8DB3@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <1237745121-6325-9-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

El 22/3/2009, a las 19:05, Felipe Contreras escribió:

> This is shorter, avoids the burder to think about the format of the
> configuration file, and git config is already used in other places in
> the manual.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/user-manual.txt |    8 +++-----
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user- 
> manual.txt
> index b7678aa..c6ed940 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> @@ -1015,13 +1015,11 @@ Telling git your name
> ---------------------
>
> Before creating any commits, you should introduce yourself to git.   
> The
> -easiest way to do so is to make sure the following lines appear in a
> -file named `.gitconfig` in your home directory:
> +easiest way is to use the linkgit:git-config[1] command:
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> -[user]
> -	name = Your Name Comes Here
> -	email = you@yourdomain.example.com
> +$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
> +$ git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> (See the '"CONFIGURATION FILE"' section of linkgit:git-config[1] for
> -- 
> 1.6.2.1.352.gae594

See this lengthy thread:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106634

Wincent