Re: [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2009, 09:14 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530904050214y256cc0d3icc1843cfd148d69d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490904042036q26bebc13p91c8cffaf432c02c@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> 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.

Ok, I forgot to explain this again the commit message of this particular patch, but it's described in the patch series description.

The previous patch adds a 'Getting Started' section that explains exactly that; you can edit ~/.gitconfig.

So that concern is already addressed.

-- 
Felipe Contreras