The name (not user) and email setting should be in config section "user" and not in "core" as documented in Documentation/config.txt. --- builtin/config.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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"), ident_default_name(), ident_default_email()); -- 2.3.5 -- 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