From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Files used by git config (Re: Challenge with Git-Bash) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:16:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20100718181619.GA14367@burratino> References: <001d01cb25cb$eb176980$c1463c80$@net> <20100717171303.GB10730@burratino> <008a01cb26a4$4313e360$c93baa20$@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0?= Bjarmason To: Rainer Lauer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 18 20:17:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaYQd-0000NB-V6 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:17:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756863Ab0GRSRU convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:17:20 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:46592 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756859Ab0GRSRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:17:19 -0400 Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so3822867iwn.19 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:17:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=31TqOoCwe6uIcf9v7bXfUvE62kqE+Dzg5artu/DsPTI=; b=MqkhDK1QL4r72784PQBkb8wQSSc9aljMcyZuF1/cIgI//QS4xhWMRrjRmWYoXkSbDu kTkxQ9nW1kJVG+RMwoguhIGYVlUSy21UROzJGhq61Mm6a6w/0yEpvFxbIHUmS/iemTU0 rT3stRrnSThfbxWg2q/lebO3C+LEuluT7K+r0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=FIXoT9VnUV7a6ld4S5T82jqfwtQ4tTNFibIwA7oWW9KADz1fRd3+VYoHo88yut6Sdk ccqBshQrKVtZbqepKcl4kokI1+RB+1e5IzEm8b/g8FPF/+tkev9482AsKYywtMuZA7Hm fU7Q/pT4KNUVTGarMRJIsv0oDav98w6rP0TaE= Received: by 10.231.179.24 with SMTP id bo24mr3444752ibb.193.1279477038787; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burratino (c-98-212-3-231.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.212.3.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm21029963ibi.6.2010.07.18.11.17.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008a01cb26a4$4313e360$c93baa20$@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi again, Rainer Lauer wrote: > Where is following information stored? > Command: git config --global user.name=3D"Rainer Lauer". I recommend looking that the user manual[1] to start out. It has a few relevant hints. =46rom the preface: Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man pages, or git-help(1) command. For example, for the command "git clone ", you can either use: $ man git-clone or: $ git help clone =46rom the start to =E2=80=9Cchapter 3: developing with git=E2=80=9D: Before creating any commits, you should introduce yourself to git. The easiest way to do so is to make sure the following lines appear in a file named .gitconfig in your home directory: [user] name =3D Your Name Comes Here email =3D you@yourdomain.example.com (See the "CONFIGURATION FILE" section of git-config(1) for details on the configuration file.) Regards, Jonathan [1] http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html