If the user runs git config --global user.name Your Name as suggested, user.name will be set to "Your". With this patch, the suggested command will be git config --global user.name 'Your Name' which will set user.name to "Your Name" and hopefully help users avoid the former mistake. Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-commit.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-commit.c b/builtin-commit.c index 55676fd..1ec89d1 100644 --- a/builtin-commit.c +++ b/builtin-commit.c @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static const char implicit_ident_advice[] = "on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.\n" "You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:\n" "\n" -" git config --global user.name Your Name\n" +" git config --global user.name 'Your Name'\n" " git config --global user.email you@xxxxxxxxxxx\n" "\n" "If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:\n" -- 1.7.0 -- 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