[PATCH 2/2] user-manual: simplify the user configuration
- From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 11, 2009, 20:43 UTC
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- <1255293786-17293-3-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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- <1255293786-17293-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
This is shorter, avoids the burder to think about the format of the configuration file, and most guides out there prefer this form.
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 ff2563a..bab64f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1008,13 +1008,11 @@ 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
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