From: Jay Soffian Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:36:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration Message-ID: <76718490904042036q26bebc13p91c8cffaf432c02c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1238837909-3060-8-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > This is shorter, avoids the burder to think about the format of the > configuration file, and git config is already used in other places in > the manual. > [...] > ------------------------------------------------ > -[user] > - name = Your Name Comes Here > - email = you@yourdomain.example.com > +$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here" > +$ git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com > ------------------------------------------------ This has come up before, and the idea was to hint to the reader that .gitconfig is something they can edit themselves. j.