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[PATCH] commit: quote the user name in the example

From
MKMatt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Date
Feb 24, 2010, 02:54 UTC
Message-ID
<1266980049-5835-1-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org>
If the user runs
 git config --global user.name Your Name

as suggested, user.name will be set to "Your". With this patch, the suggested command will be

 git config --global user.name 'Your Name'

which will set user.name to "Your Name" and hopefully help users avoid the former mistake.

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
---
 builtin-commit.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c
index 55676fd..1ec89d1 100644
--- a/builtin-commit.c
+++ b/builtin-commit.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static const char implicit_ident_advice[] =
 "on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.\n"
 "You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:\n"
 "\n"
-"    git config --global user.name Your Name\n"
+"    git config --global user.name 'Your Name'\n"
 "    git config --global user.email you@example.com\n"
 "\n"
 "If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:\n"
-- 
1.7.0
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  1. commit: quote the user name in the exampleMatt Kraai, Feb 24, 2010
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  3. Johannes SixtFeb 24, 2010
  4. commit: quote the user name in the exampleMatt Kraai, Feb 24, 2010
  5. Matt KraaiFeb 24, 2010

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