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

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

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> El 23/3/2009, a las 12:07, Felipe Contreras escribió:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> El 23/3/2009, a las 0:01, Felipe Contreras escribió:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I noticed that only after sending my message. I hadn't realised at
>>> first because the patch really looked like it was written by someone who
>>> hadn't ever seen the thread, as it doesn't address the points raised in
>>> the
>>> thread at all.
>>
>> I am addressing the points.
>
> Sorry for not noticing the other patch in the series. I fired off the email
> because when I read 8/8 I thought, "This looks almost exactly like a patch
> that was previously rejected".

It's ok, thanks for the comment, I'll keep that in mind for the patch series.

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Felipe Contreras