From: Felipe Contreras Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:04:10 GMT Subject: [PATCH] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration. Message-ID: <1232564650-3701-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901211955.47362.markus.heidelberg@web.de> 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 --- 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 19f571a..c8a1b7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -981,13 +981,11 @@ 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 -- 1.6.1