user-manual: fix .gitconfig editing examples
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Mon, 7 May 2007 04:16:33 +0000 (00:16 -0400)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Mon, 7 May 2007 05:03:53 +0000 (01:03 -0400)
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>
Documentation/user-manual.txt

index 03206c53442bb0de757eaabc5cd20fd263f5db95..c292b4d7979320660eff7f6688b08693eb88b408 100644 (file)
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Making changes
 Make sure git knows who to blame:
 
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-$ 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