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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 23:36:41 -0400
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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.