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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: quote the user name in the example
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:49:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B84DA03.1040809@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266980049-5835-1-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org>

Matt Kraai schrieb:
> If the user runs
> 
>  git config --global user.name Your Name
> 
> as suggested, user.name will be set to "Your".  With this patch, the
> suggested command will be
> 
>  git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
> 
> which will set user.name to "Your Name" and hopefully help users avoid
> the former mistake.

Actually, I would prefer that the suggested command is

  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

i.e., with double-quotes, because then the suggestion is also correct for
Windows users who run git from CMD: in this environment, single-quotes do
not quote, but double-quotes do.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-24  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-24  2:54 [PATCH] commit: quote the user name in the example Matt Kraai
2010-02-24  3:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-24  7:49 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-02-24 14:18   ` Matt Kraai
2010-02-24 14:19   ` Matt Kraai

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