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Re: [PATCH] user-manual.txt: Some doc updates

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SBSanti Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 19, 2007, 19:51 UTC
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<8aa486160704191251l5232cb52qc6d476061587b361@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/19/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:07:01PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > > It was a conscious decision to use a mixture of the two techniques; see,
> > > e.g.,
> > >
> > >     http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116994435503452&w=2
> > >
> > > and followups.
> >
> > Maybe it should be said more explicitly that both are fine.
>
> Yes.  If I were to do that I'd do it by first rewriting the DESCRIPTION
> section of git-config.txt to make this point clearer, then making sure
> there's a gitlink:git-config[1] everywhere there should be in the
> manual.  But we could also add a sentence in the manual here.

At least it should not overwrite the old contents of the file, as in the above mail, tell to edit the file instead of the cat >~/.gitconfig <<EOF structure.

Santi
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