On Friday 11 May 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> > Use git-config for setting global user.name and user.email rather than
> > telling the user to edit ~/.gitconfig directly. This brings
> > user-manual.txt in line with tutorial.txt.
>
> The inconsistency is intentional. We want users to know about
> git-config, because it's helpful when writing scripts, and because it
> has a useful manpage. But we also want them to know about the
> config-file syntax, since most of us find reading and editing a file
> more intuitive than running git-config. So we use a mixture of both.
I see your point, but when I look at the user manual, the only place I can
actually find git-config used is in [[remote-branch-configuration]].
Besides, we also present the config-file syntax for user.{name,email} in
[[telling-git-your-name]], so it's not like I'm remove every reference to
the layout of .gitconfig.
Maybe we can present both versions in [[making-changes]]?
Have fun!
...Johan
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Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
www.herland.net
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