From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:02:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Use "git config --global" instead of editing ~/.gitconfig
Message-ID: <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.

--b.

> 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
>