From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:14:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration Message-ID: <94a0d4530904050214y256cc0d3icc1843cfd148d69d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <76718490904042036q26bebc13p91c8cffaf432c02c@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jay Soffian wrote: > 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. 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