--- There are some other places where direct editing of .git/config is suggested. I'd rather tell the user to use repo-config and add a note that repo-config saves the configuration to .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig with --global) which can be edited by hand too. cat .git/config to show the remote configuration can be replaced by git-repo-config -l | grep '^remote\.' --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 ++----- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 87c605f..7a286d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -153,11 +153,8 @@ Making changes Make sure git knows who to blame: ------------------------------------------------ -$ cat >~/.gitconfig <<\EOF -[user] -name = Your Name Comes Here -email = you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -EOF +$ git repo-config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here" +$ git repo-config --global user.email you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------ Select file contents to include in the next commit, then make the -- 1.5.0.rc2.g18af - 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