# add two steps 4 messages from 2024-01-27 to 2024-01-27. Participants: Johannes Kingma, Beat Bolli, Johannes. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/60800 ## Johannes Kingma, 2024-01-27 09:43 Subject: add two steps Message-ID: <66e4baf4-439a-4a1b-ba95-1f9ed222d42a@king.ma> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/66e4baf4-439a-4a1b-ba95-1f9ed222d42a%40king.ma ``` For git to work at least a user.name and user.email globals are needed. would it make sense to include this in the installation process? ``` ## Beat Bolli, 2024-01-27 12:23 Subject: Re: add two steps Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/a420cdc5-8294-4ffb-9f6c-06e1416ada43%40drbeat.li In-Reply-To: <66e4baf4-439a-4a1b-ba95-1f9ed222d42a@king.ma> ``` On 27.01.24 10:43, Johannes Kingma wrote: > For git to work at least a user.name and user.email globals are needed. > would it make sense to include this in the installation process? > The Git projects only distributes source code, so there's no installation process as such that could be improved. -- Cheers, Beat ``` ## Johannes, 2024-01-27 15:27 Subject: Re: add two steps Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e64ea18e-a733-4a01-af1e-22a7f9d974dd%40king.ma In-Reply-To: ``` I'm talking about installing git from git-scm.org. That _is_ a software that is installed. On 27/01/2024 13:23, Beat Bolli wrote: > On 27.01.24 10:43, Johannes Kingma wrote: >> For git to work at least a user.name and user.email globals are >> needed. would it make sense to include this in the installation process? >> > > The Git projects only distributes source code, so there's no > installation process as such that could be improved. ``` ## Beat Bolli, 2024-01-27 16:31 Subject: Re: add two steps Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c1c041f7-e388-4451-8573-547a2cad9f8c%40drbeat.li In-Reply-To: ``` On 27.01.24 16:27, Johannes wrote: Hi Johannes, > On 27/01/2024 13:23, Beat Bolli wrote: >> On 27.01.24 10:43, Johannes Kingma wrote: >>> For git to work at least a user.name and user.email globals are >>> needed. would it make sense to include this in the installation process? >>> >> >> The Git projects only distributes source code, so there's no >> installation process as such that could be improved. > I'm talking about installing git from git-scm.org. That _is_ a > software that is installed. None of these installers are created by the Git project itself. What operating system are you installing on? -- Cheers, Beat ```