From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 23:36:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490904042036q26bebc13p91c8cffaf432c02c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238837909-3060-8-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is shorter, avoids the burder to think about the format of the
> configuration file, and git config is already used in other places in
> the manual.
> [...]
> ------------------------------------------------
> -[user]
> - name = Your Name Comes Here
> - email = you@yourdomain.example.com
> +$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
> +$ git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
> ------------------------------------------------
This has come up before, and the idea was to hint to the reader that
.gitconfig is something they can edit themselves.
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-05 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-04 9:38 [PATCH 0/7] user-manual: general improvements Felipe Contreras
2009-04-04 9:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] user-manual: remove some git-foo usage Felipe Contreras
2009-04-04 9:38 ` [PATCH 2/7] docbook: improve css style Felipe Contreras
[not found] ` <1238837909-3060-4-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
2009-04-04 9:38 ` [PATCH 4/7] user-manual: use 'fast-forward' instead of 'fast forward' Felipe Contreras
2009-04-04 9:38 ` [PATCH 5/7] user-manual: use SHA-1 instead of SHA1 or sha1 Felipe Contreras
2009-04-04 9:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] user-manual: add global config section Felipe Contreras
2009-04-04 9:38 ` [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration Felipe Contreras
2009-04-05 3:36 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-04-05 9:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-04-05 15:11 ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-05 9:47 ` [PATCH 6/7] user-manual: add global config section Junio C Hamano
2009-05-01 8:37 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-05-01 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-01 22:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-05-02 0:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-06 8:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] user-manual: use SHA-1 instead of SHA1 or sha1 Junio C Hamano
2009-05-01 8:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-04-06 8:14 ` [PATCH 4/7] user-manual: use 'fast-forward' instead of 'fast forward' Junio C Hamano
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