On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:50:10PM +0300, Ossi Herrala wrote: > The name (not user) and email setting should be in config section > "user" and not in "core" as documented in Documentation/config.txt. <facepalm> Well, those probably weren't helping any new users, then, were they? :) > diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c > index d32c532..bfd3016 100644 > --- a/builtin/config.c > +++ b/builtin/config.c > @@ -455,9 +455,9 @@ static char *default_user_config(void) > struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT; > strbuf_addf(&buf, > _("# This is Git's per-user configuration file.\n" > - "[core]\n" > + "[user]\n" > "# Please adapt and uncomment the following lines:\n" > - "# user = %s\n" > + "# name = %s\n" > "# email = %s\n"), Looks obviously correct. Thanks for noticing. -Peff -- 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