Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 3278aa7..b7678aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -40,6 +40,40 @@ without any explanation. Finally, see <<todo>> for ways that you can help make this manual more complete. +[[getting-started]] +Getting started +============= + +You can skip this section safely, however, configuring git at an early stage +would probably make your overall experience with it more pleasant. Also many +parts on this manual would be easier to grasp. + +Git's configuration is distributed on different locations: 'system', 'global', and +'repository'. Variables are stored in the form of 'foo.bar', and the precedence +order is 'repository' > 'global' > 'system'. + +You would probably want to start setting up something useful: +------------------------------------------------ +$ git config --global color.ui auto +------------------------------------------------ + +This will make prettier the output of certain commands such as `git diff`, but +that's not important; what is important here is that `color.ui` has been +stored in the 'global' (for the user) configuration. + +You can take a look and manually modify the configuration with the `--edit` +option (will use '$EDITOR'): +------------------------------------------------ +$ git config --global --edit +[color] + ui = auto +------------------------------------------------ + +Or you can manually edit the file which is located in `~/.gitconfig`. Other +locations are `/etc/gitconfig` (system), and `.git/config` (repository). + +Other git configurations will be covered in the rest of the manual, if you +want to learn more look at linkgit:git-config[1] for details. [[repositories-and-branches]] Repositories and Branches -- 1.6.2.1.352.gae594 -- 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
