Re: [RFC/PATCH 8/8] user-manual: simplify the user configuration

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

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See this lengthy thread:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106634

I've obviously seen that thread because I started it.

Can you write more than one line to explain your point?

The "lengthy thread" look lengthier than necessary because it has a
more-or-less unrelated side topic ("where is $HOME on Windows"), but I
think the main point by WIncent is that onus lies on whoever repeats the
previous discussion to provide what is different in this round to convince
others to read the patch.  For example, this

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106657

was not answered by you in the previous round, and I do not think this
round is any different.

Was I supposed to answer it? I am trying to address the points raised
in those discussions in this patch series.

I personally find that between what Wincent presented in

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/106673

as "Something like either ... or ...", the first one that shows the actual
configuration file contents and then mention 'git config' a good enough
compromise.

Except that in the previous patch[1] (#7) I'm adding a new global
section that explains how to configure git in different ways:

I don't think it makes sense to explain "either ... or ..." each time
we deal with 'git config' in the manual if it's explained in the very
beginning.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/114163

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Felipe Contreras