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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzlpiw9gn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806181721580.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:23:21 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
>> 
>> Have you read "man git-config" lately?
>
> That whole program is there just for scripting. Of _course_ it talks about 
> the machine format!
>
> Nobody should ever use "git-config" normally. You should fire up your 
> editor and just edit the damn file in place. But no, we don't have a 
> man-page for that.

I was asked to proofread a git book somebody is starting to write, and the
first thing the book taught was to use "config user.name".

I gave a suggestion that we should not teach config as the first thing but
instead we should show editing the $HOME/.gitconfig file manually, to give
the feeling that what git deals with is approachable, but I realize the
suggestion is not convincing when our own Documentation/gittutorial.txt
does it fairly early in it, too.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-18 22:29 [PATCH 0/4] Add 'core.fsyncobjectfiles' config option Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:31   ` [PATCH 2/4] Split up default "user" " Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:31     ` [PATCH 3/4] Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:32       ` [PATCH 4/4] Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 22:49   ` [PATCH 1/4] Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine Jeff King
2008-06-18 22:58     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 23:13       ` Jeff King
2008-06-18 23:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19  0:08           ` Jeff King
2008-06-19  0:23             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19  0:28               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-19  2:10                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-19  0:32               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-19  1:23               ` Jeff King
2008-06-19  0:18           ` Eric Raible

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