On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ok, I forgot to explain this again the commit message of this particular patch, but it's described in the patch series description. The previous patch adds a 'Getting Started' section that explains exactly that; you can edit ~/.gitconfig. So that concern is already addressed. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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
