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[PATCH 4/6] user-manual: fix .gitconfig editing examples

From: J. Bruce Fields <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:08
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

From: J. Bruce Fields <redacted>

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <redacted>
---
 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 03206c5..c292b4d 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
-- 
1.5.1.1.98.gedb4f
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