From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:05:21 GMT Subject: [RFC/PATCH 8/8] user-manual: simplify the user configuration Message-ID: <1237745121-6325-9-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1237745121-6325-8-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> 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 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