Re: [PATCH v2 09/15] user-manual: Use 'git config --global user.*' for setup

From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Feb 10, 2013, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20130210222508.GC8377@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <7vip5zstsa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:12:05PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > +Which will add the following stanza to a file named `.gitconfig` in
> > +your home directory:
> 
> Looks good, even though I do not think we would want/need to confuse
> the readers with an unfamiliar word "stanza".

Aw. I suppose "section" is better? (It's what Python's ConfigParser uses anyway). I saw "stanza" in another part of the manual and thought it was quite poetic ;).

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