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“Once it's installed and configured,” #1357

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daveyostcom opened this issue Jul 30, 2023 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1366
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“Once it's installed and configured,” #1357

daveyostcom opened this issue Jul 30, 2023 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1366
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The ReadMe should say want it means to be configured. Apparently something has to happen in ~/.gitconfig, but what exactly? The installer on macOS also hints but does not explain; instead it delegates to the ReadMe.

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The Install instructions also don’t illuminate re .gitconfig.

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By configure, we mean setting the credential.helper config to the GCM exe as well as credential.useHttpPath to true for dev.azure.com remotes. We would welcome an update to the README and/or help documentation for the configure command clarifying this.

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I can’t offer a fix because what you say is not concrete enough for me to understand and I’m on macOS. This is why I posted this issue. Thanks.

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Add FAQ entry about (un)configure commands (#1366)
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Add an entry in the FAQs about what the `configure` and `unconfigure`
commands actually do to your Git configuration.

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mjcheetham commented Aug 3, 2023 •
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Hello @daveyostcom,

We've updated the FAQs to include information about what the configure and unconfigure commands do, and link to the FAQs from the macOS installer pages.

https://gh.io/gcm/faq#q-what-do-the-configure-and-unconfigure-commands-do

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