Re: [PATCH] user-manual: set user.name and user.email with repo-config

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 06:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20070129063902.GK12125@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070128002246.GA10179@moooo.ath.cx>

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:22:46AM +0100, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:

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> There are some other places where direct editing of .git/config is
> suggested.  I'd rather tell the user to use repo-config and add a note
> that repo-config saves the configuration to .git/config (or
> ~/.gitconfig with --global) which can be edited by hand too.
> cat .git/config to show the remote configuration can be replaced by
> git-repo-config -l | grep '^remote\.'
> ---

Based on the followup I think what makes sense is to continue with some mixture of the two approaches--mainly editing the configuration file directly, but providing frequent references to the git-repo-config/git-config manpage so people know where to find the details.

I've added a few more references to the manpage, along with a few other updates, including an initial import of Linus's discussion of dangling objects, and brief dicussions of reflogs, fsck, and pruning:

	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git master
	http://www.fieldses.org/~bfields/git-user-manual.html

--b.