From 660df2f194f9a46b16acc9c49fe40504913230b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Reeve <adreeve@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:29:16 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Added information about setting user.name and user.email to
 the commit section

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 basic/index.html | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/basic/index.html b/basic/index.html
index b7f2304..4f8327b 100644
--- a/basic/index.html
+++ b/basic/index.html
@@ -427,7 +427,17 @@ index 2aabb6e..2ae9ba4 100644
 
     <p>Now that you have staged the content you want to snapshot with the 
     <code>git add</code> command, you run <code>git commit</code> to actually
-    record the snapshot.  Let's stage and commit all the changes to our 
+    record the snapshot.
+    Git records your name and email address with every commit you make,
+    so the first step is to tell Git what these are.
+    </p>
+
+<pre>
+<b>$ git config --global user.name 'Your Name'</b>
+<b>$ git config --global user.email you@somedomain.com</b>
+</pre>
+
+    <p>Let's stage and commit all the changes to our
     <code>hello.rb</code> file.  In this first example, we'll use the 
     <code>-m</code> option to provide the commit message on the command line.
     </p>