From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] user-manual: simplify the user configuration Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:14:02 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530904050214y256cc0d3icc1843cfd148d69d@mail.gmail.com> References: <1238837909-3060-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-3-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-4-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-5-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-6-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-7-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1238837909-3060-8-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <76718490904042036q26bebc13p91c8cffaf432c02c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Jay Soffian X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 05 11:15:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LqOS6-0000aK-B0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:15:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755584AbZDEJOK convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 05:14:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754559AbZDEJOH (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 05:14:07 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:49616 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754128AbZDEJOF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 05:14:05 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1486440fxm.37 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:14:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cjfpCFgGJysG6mK12i+yTl09atkqtVaJEnbWdj85v4s=; b=eCp26FSS0K6HfIt+D+7onqRVXd5R2wwy0nFRpXtRVCpdtc1fQs9TDr2lmHSBryjAs5 MayBjZD6nXT+CgIaQYh3zOcmWezeZjODGlMwkIKyDYfQN7ODhZmxwIFqXGe9WDJqDtgw weqsFSmH6nFxfhsjVPB+BzToJmlIaVqbj6Xk8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MJ8wSq3yMfKA7Hve2rVk/DHMvPdJyBRqViUSpoylqIk7M3xLlI/AjXaitb1kKqKeJv wGEIQNIpbESL/DeBu4w9MjfERRLYt1hbPIDaLJq+zn0Y4/bDNgYvCk0/jrd13BVzsyEG jSQy3/PSsklSoXCNT6B1xwF38zKf91g8hz5uM= Received: by 10.86.31.18 with SMTP id e18mr2163793fge.72.1238922842430; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:14:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <76718490904042036q26bebc13p91c8cffaf432c02c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jay Soffian wrot= e: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Felipe Contreras > 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 i= n >> the manual. >> [...] >> =C2=A0------------------------------------------------ >> -[user] >> - =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 name =3D Your Name Comes Here >> - =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 email =3D you@yourdomain.example.com >> +$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here" >> +$ git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com >> =C2=A0------------------------------------------------ > > This has come up before, and the idea was to hint to the reader that > .gitconfig is something they can edit themselves. Ok, I forgot to explain this again the commit message of this particular patch, but it's described in the patch series description. The previous patch adds a 'Getting Started' section that explains exactly that; you can edit ~/.gitconfig. So that concern is already addressed. --=20 =46elipe Contreras