On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > [...] > ------------------------------------------------ > -[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 > ------------------------------------------------ This has come up before, and the idea was to hint to the reader that .gitconfig is something they can edit themselves. j. -- 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
