[FFmpeg-devel] Configuring git (incomplete git-howto)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:17:13PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:11:08PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> > > 
> > > Le 17 janv. 2011 ? 20:56, Reimar D?ffinger a ?crit :
> > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I wanted to commit something, but I noticed that there are no instructions
> > > > on how to configure git (I know I requested that at one point).
> > > > If I followed the instructions as is, I'd end up with author given as
> > > > "reimar <reimar at local.(none)>" which I can't imagine is what we want.
> > > > That's even ignoring people who have nonsense usernames etc. pp.
> > > > Could someone please add that?
> > > 
> > > Indeed, happened to me the first time I (tried to) used git...
> > > 
> > > cf.
> > > ftp://ftp.il.kernel.org/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.3.5/user-manual.html#telling-git-your-name
> > 
> > I don't think that's going to work that well for Windows-users.
> > At least I'd have no idea where to put that .gitconfig (and is it
> > named .gitconfig on Windows? I thought .names are a rather bad idea
> > on Windows and thus programs generally drop the '.').
> 
> git config --global|--local user.name|email $VALUE
> 
> should be portable.

Thanks, I figure it out myself and added a quick hackish description.
Feel free to improve it, I didn't spend much time to write it nicely.