This basically introduces the "getting started" section so users get familiar with the configuration from the get-go, and also, most people prefer to teach 'git config --global' to setup the user name and email. Here are a few examples: git tutorial: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html GNOME: http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Git github: http://help.github.com/git-email-settings/ v2: Reworded the getting started section based on comments from Michael J Gruber, Jonathan Nieder and Junio C Hamano. Felipe Contreras (2): user-manual: add global config section user-manual: simplify the user configuration Documentation/user-manual.txt | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html