From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:38:28 GMT Subject: [PATCH 6/7] user-manual: add global config section Message-ID: <1238837909-3060-7-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1238837909-3060-6-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 3278aa7..a3032c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -40,6 +40,36 @@ without any explanation. Finally, see <> for ways that you can help make this manual more complete. +[[getting-started]] +Getting started +============= + +Git's configuration is distributed among different locations--this manual will +only to deal with 'global' and 'repository' variables, where 'repository' +variables take precedence over 'global' ones. + +You would probably want to start setting up something useful: +------------------------------------------------ +$ git config --global color.ui auto +------------------------------------------------ + +This will make prettier the output of certain commands such as `git diff`, but +that's not important; what is important here is that `color.ui` has been +stored in the 'global' (for the user) configuration. + +View and manually modify the configuration with the `--edit` +option (which will use '$EDITOR'): +------------------------------------------------ +$ git config --global --edit +[color] + ui = auto +------------------------------------------------ + +Or you can manually edit the file which is located in `~/.gitconfig`. Other +locations are `/etc/gitconfig` (system), and `.git/config` (repository). + +Other git configurations will be covered in the rest of the manual, if you +want to learn more look at linkgit:git-config[1] for details. [[repositories-and-branches]] Repositories and Branches -- 1.6.2.2.404.ge96f3