[cairo] Re: git setup

[Peter Weilbacher (Mozilla)]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:11:02 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:04:02 +0200, "Peter Weilbacher (Mozilla)" wrote:
>> Hmm, the commit contains the username and machine instead of
>> a usable email address. Any idea how I screwed up my git setup
>> to do that and what I have to do to fix it?
>
>That's the git default behavior. You can change it for the current
>repository with:
>
>	git config user.email you at example.com
>
>or for your current user account with:
>
>	git config --global user.email you at example.com
>
>I'm not sure which versions of git support those commands, (I think
>"git config --global" is more-or-less recent). The first command
>basically just drops the following block into .git/config, (which you
>could definitely do manually for any version of git):
>
>	[user]
>		email = you at example.com
>
>The --global version drops the same block into ~/.gitconfig, (but
>ancient versions of git didn't know to look there I think).
>
>I hope that helps,

Thanks Carl, that helped a lot! As soon as you know what you are
searching for the whole documentation is easily to find. :-)

   Peter.