From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:14:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Hyphens and hiding core commands
Message-ID: <20061129071449.GH5061@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <7vu00k3pao.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> +------------------------------------------------
> +$ cat >~/.gitconfig
> +[user]
> +	name = Your Name Comes Here
> +	email = you@yourdomain.example.com
> +^D
> +------------------------------------------------

I used to use the ^D convention when explaining git
to beginners and I noticed some people try to cut-and-paste it.

So the following might be a better way to put it:

+$ cat <<EOF >~/.gitconfig
+[user]
+	name = Your Name Comes Here
+	email = you@yourdomain.example.com
+EOF

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