Re: [PATCH 0/2] user-manual: reorganize the configuration steps

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 14:14 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530910140714i64c0b5f7gdb8ec4c95e3d2e7f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091014024940.GB9700@fieldses.org>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:49 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:43:04PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> This basically introduces the "getting started" section so users get familiar
>> with the configuration from the get-go, and also, most people prefer to teach
>> 'git config --global' to setup the user name and email. Here are a few
>> examples:
>
> I'm not personally a big fan of starting out with a "how to use
> git-config" section, because it's not that difficult or important:
> questions we get on this list suggest confusion about a lot of things,
> but git configuration is rarely one of them (that I've noticed).

Which means either people understand the configuration perfectly, look somewhere else for that, or they don't do it at all.

Judging by the fact that most guides cover it at the beginning, and people still send commits without proper user{.name,.email}, I would say it is needed.

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> I'd rather just point people to the git-config man page the first time
> we mention any git configuration.  (And improve the man page if
> necessary to ensure it's up to the job.)
>
> If we have to do this, just keep it short....

That's what I tried to do.

-- 
Felipe Contreras