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| author |  J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-05-07 00:16:33 -0400 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-05-07 01:03:53 -0400 |
| commit | 58c19d1f95f4742efc6b3ca7d2fddbccd015e0b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 08e2a381eda9408751535d56e1c4ce2afd5fdcd4 /Documentation | |
| parent | user-manual: clean up fast-forward and dangling-objects sections (diff) | |
| download | tgif-58c19d1f95f4742efc6b3ca7d2fddbccd015e0b0.tar.xz | |
user-manual: fix .gitconfig editing examples
Santi Béjar points out that when telling people how to "introduce
themselves" to git we're advising them to replace their entire
.gitconfig file. Fix that.
Cc: "Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 03206c5344..c292b4d797 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Making changes Make sure git knows who to blame: ------------------------------------------------ -$ cat >~/.gitconfig <<\EOF +$ cat >>~/.gitconfig <<\EOF [user] name = Your Name Comes Here email = you@yourdomain.example.com @@ -1049,14 +1049,13 @@ Telling git your name --------------------- Before creating any commits, you should introduce yourself to git. The -easiest way to do so is: +easiest way to do so is to make sure the following lines appear in a +file named .gitconfig in your home directory: ------------------------------------------------ -$ cat >~/.gitconfig <<\EOF [user] name = Your Name Comes Here email = you@yourdomain.example.com -EOF ------------------------------------------------ (See the "CONFIGURATION FILE" section of gitlink:git-config[1] for |