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From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration.
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:55:24 +0100
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El 25/1/2009, a las 22:44, Jeff King escribi=F3:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:12:57PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> However, my last proposal was to have both the git config --global
>> *and* the $HOME/.gitconfig description. Is there any argument agains=
t
>> that?
>
> This is like the fifth time you have asked, and for some reason, =20
> nobody
> seems to have said yes or no. So I will go ahead and say: yes, I thin=
k
> that is a fine idea.
>
> I think there should also be some explanatory text that indicates the=
y
> are totally interchangeable for the rest of the document. Something
> like: "When we show configuration in the rest of this document, we =20
> will
> use format X [I think probably "git config $VAR $VALUE"]. But you can
> use whichever method you are most comfortable with."

I already suggested something similar about 4 days ago:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106673/

Cheers,
Wincent