[PATCH 1/2] user-manual: add global config section

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

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Oct 11, 2009, 20:43 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/user-manual.txt |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 67ebffa..ff2563a 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,33 @@ without any explanation.
 Finally, see <<todo>> 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' (for the user) 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' configuration.
+
+View and manually modify the configuration by opening `~/.gitconfig`:
+------------------------------------------------
+[color]
+        ui = auto
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Other locations are `/etc/gitconfig` (system), and `.git/config` (repository).
+
+More 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

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