[RFC/PATCH 7/8] user-manual: add global config section

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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 Finally, see <<todo>> for ways that you can help make this manual more
 complete.
 
+[[getting-started]]
+Getting started
+=============
+
+You can skip this section safely, however, configuring git at an early stage
+would probably make your overall experience with it more pleasant. Also many
+parts on this manual would be easier to grasp.
+
+Git's configuration is distributed on different locations: 'system', 'global', and
+'repository'. Variables are stored in the form of 'foo.bar', and the precedence
+order is 'repository' > 'global' > 'system'.
+
+You would probably want to start setting up something useful:
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git config --global color.ui auto
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This will make prettier the output of certain commands such as `git diff`, but
+that's not important; what is important here is that `color.ui` has been
+stored in the 'global' (for the user) configuration.
+
+You can take a look and manually modify the configuration with the `--edit`
+option (will use '$EDITOR'):
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git config --global --edit
+[color]
+        ui = auto
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Or you can manually edit the file which is located in `~/.gitconfig`. Other
+locations are `/etc/gitconfig` (system), and `.git/config` (repository).
+
+Other git configurations will be covered in the rest of the manual, if you
+want to learn more look at linkgit:git-config[1] for details.
 
 [[repositories-and-branches]]
 Repositories and Branches
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