Re: [PATCH 0/2] user-manual: reorganize the configuration steps

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 02:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20091014024940.GB9700@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <1255293786-17293-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:43:04PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> This basically introduces the "getting started" section so users get familiar
> with the configuration from the get-go, and also, most people prefer to teach
> 'git config --global' to setup the user name and email. Here are a few
> examples:

I'm not personally a big fan of starting out with a "how to use git-config" section, because it's not that difficult or important: questions we get on this list suggest confusion about a lot of things, but git configuration is rarely one of them (that I've noticed).

I'd rather just point people to the git-config man page the first time we mention any git configuration. (And improve the man page if necessary to ensure it's up to the job.)

If we have to do this, just keep it short....

--b.

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> 
> git tutorial:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html
> 
> GNOME:
> http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers
> 
> SourceForge:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Git
> 
> github:
> http://help.github.com/git-email-settings/
> 
> Felipe Contreras (2):
>   user-manual: add global config section
>   user-manual: simplify the user configuration
> 
>  Documentation/user-manual.txt |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>