Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't think making the "cheat-sheet" insn longer by offering more > choices is a good idea. These are messages for lazy and busy > people. The reason I kept both forms was that the message is designed to be seen once (or once for each new machine one works on), and the most scary it is, the most efficient ;-). > Wouldn't it work better to just get rid of the longer form and say > something like: > > ... here is how to tell your name to git (existing message) ... > > After doing the above, run > > git commit --amend --reset-author > > to fix the identity used for this commit. I'm fine with that proposal too. I'll resend with that if no one objects. Probalby rewording it to After doing this, you can fix the identity used for this commit with: git commit --amend --reset-author would make it even concisier (no break of the sentence with a command). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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