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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Use "git config --global" instead of editing ~/.gitconfig
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 09:22:34 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705110916580.24220@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070511034653.GB26896@fieldses.org>

On Thu, 10 May 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> So while I'm not convinced of the value of consistency here, if we have
> to have consistency, I'd rather standardize on config-file-editing.

Why not simply providing both?

	You can modify your config with the following commands:

	...

	Alternatively, you might edit your ~/.gitconfig directly as 
	well with the following content:

	...

Wouldn't that be clearer?  This way there is no confusion since it is 
clear up front that both methods are equivalent, and the user can choose 
between them.

For one, I prefer the git-config method even if I do edit source files 
all day long.  It just seems faster to me.


Nicolas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10 21:53 [PATCH] user-manual: Use "git config --global" instead of editing ~/.gitconfig Johan Herland
2007-05-10 22:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-10 22:16   ` Johan Herland
2007-05-10 23:00   ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-11  3:46     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-11  4:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 13:22       ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-05-11 20:23       ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-10 22:04 ` Junio C Hamano

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