Re: [RFC/PATCH 8/8] user-manual: simplify the user configuration

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El 23/3/2009, a las 12:07, Felipe Contreras escribió:

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

El 23/3/2009, a las 0:01, Felipe Contreras escribió:

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

El 22/3/2009, a las 19:05, Felipe Contreras escribió:

This is shorter, avoids the burder to think about the format of the configuration file, and git config is already used in other places in
the manual.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/user-manual.txt |    8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index b7678aa..c6ed940 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1015,13 +1015,11 @@ Telling git your name
---------------------

Before creating any commits, you should introduce yourself to git. The -easiest way to do so is to make sure the following lines appear in a
-file named `.gitconfig` in your home directory:
+easiest way is to use the linkgit:git-config[1] command:

------------------------------------------------
-[user]
-       name = Your Name Comes Here
-       email = you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+$ git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
+$ git config --global user.email you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
------------------------------------------------

(See the '"CONFIGURATION FILE"' section of linkgit:git-config[1] for
--
1.6.2.1.352.gae594

See this lengthy thread:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106634

I've obviously seen that thread because I started it.

Yeah, I noticed that only after sending my message. I hadn't realised at first because the patch really looked like it was written by someone who hadn't ever seen the thread, as it doesn't address the points raised in the
thread at all.

I am addressing the points.

Sorry for not noticing the other patch in the series. I fired off the email because when I read 8/8 I thought, "This looks almost exactly like a patch that was previously rejected".

Cheers,
Wincent


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