Re: [RFC/PATCH 8/8] user-manual: simplify the user configuration

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> El 22/3/2009, a las 19:05, Felipe Contreras escribió:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/user-manual.txt |    8 +++-----
>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
>> index b7678aa..c6ed940 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
>> @@ -1015,13 +1015,11 @@ Telling git your name
>> ---------------------
>>
>> 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:
>> +easiest way is to use the linkgit:git-config[1] command:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> -[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
>> ------------------------------------------------
>>
>> (See the '"CONFIGURATION FILE"' section of linkgit:git-config[1] for
>> --
>> 1.6.2.1.352.gae594
>
> See this lengthy thread:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106634

I've obviously seen that thread because I started it.

Can you write more than one line to explain your point?

-- 
Felipe Contreras