From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net>
To: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs•org>
Cc: gitster@pobox•com, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: quote the user name in the example
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:49:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B84DA03.1040809@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266980049-5835-1-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org>
Matt Kraai schrieb:
> If the user runs
>
> git config --global user.name Your Name
>
> as suggested, user.name will be set to "Your". With this patch, the
> suggested command will be
>
> git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
>
> which will set user.name to "Your Name" and hopefully help users avoid
> the former mistake.
Actually, I would prefer that the suggested command is
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
i.e., with double-quotes, because then the suggestion is also correct for
Windows users who run git from CMD: in this environment, single-quotes do
not quote, but double-quotes do.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-24 2:54 [PATCH] commit: quote the user name in the example Matt Kraai
2010-02-24 3:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-24 7:49 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-02-24 14:18 ` Matt Kraai
2010-02-24 14:19 ` Matt Kraai
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