Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Use "git config --global" instead of editing ~/.gitconfig
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- J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
- Date
- May 10, 2007, 22:02 UTC
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- <20070510220253.GZ13719@fieldses.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <200705102353.31821.johan@herland.net>
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> Use git-config for setting global user.name and user.email rather than > telling the user to edit ~/.gitconfig directly. This brings > user-manual.txt in line with tutorial.txt.
The inconsistency is intentional. We want users to know about git-config, because it's helpful when writing scripts, and because it has a useful manpage. But we also want them to know about the config-file syntax, since most of us find reading and editing a file more intuitive than running git-config. So we use a mixture of both.
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> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> > --- > Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 ++----- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt > b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > index 13db969..23e2f45 100644 > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > @@ -158,11 +158,8 @@ Making changes > Make sure git knows who to blame: > > ------------------------------------------------ > -$ cat >>~/.gitconfig <<\EOF > -[user] > - name = Your Name Comes Here > - email = you@yourdomain.example.com > -EOF > +$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here" > +$ git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com > ------------------------------------------------ > > Select file contents to include in the next commit, then make the > -- > 1.5.0.7 >