Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
>> 
>> Have you read "man git-config" lately?
>
> That whole program is there just for scripting. Of _course_ it talks about 
> the machine format!
>
> Nobody should ever use "git-config" normally. You should fire up your 
> editor and just edit the damn file in place. But no, we don't have a 
> man-page for that.

I was asked to proofread a git book somebody is starting to write, and the
first thing the book taught was to use "config user.name".

I gave a suggestion that we should not teach config as the first thing but
instead we should show editing the $HOME/.gitconfig file manually, to give
the feeling that what git deals with is approachable, but I realize the
suggestion is not convincing when our own Documentation/gittutorial.txt
does it fairly early in it, too.
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