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| author | Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org> | 2020-02-05 10:03:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org> | 2020-02-05 10:03:24 +0100 |
| commit | 24be94568eeaeb5c51071687070a4c0ffa06a1ef (patch) | |
| tree | 790def3a6239fbfc1166c21c701815ce1c0b08fb /README-hacking.md | |
| parent | d180c5d8d5430f1e826ccf1ee9849a14a091b9b8 (diff) | |
| parent | d95fd520e19ddbc1cd8e9f900495e9d32db742cd (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README-hacking.md b/README-hacking.md index 244cb23..8e88547 100644 --- a/README-hacking.md +++ b/README-hacking.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Reproducible paper template =========================== -Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org> +Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>\ +Copyright (C) 2020 Raul Infante-Sainz <infantesainz@gmail.com>\ See the end of the file for license conditions. This project contains a **fully working template** for doing reproducible @@ -436,7 +437,7 @@ project is designed to grow in this framework. File modification dates (meta data) ----------------------------------- -While git does an excellent job at keeping a history of the contents of +While Git does an excellent job at keeping a history of the contents of files, it makes no effort in keeping the file meta data, and in particular the dates of files. Therefore when you checkout to a different branch, files that are re-written by Git will have a newer date than the other @@ -713,6 +714,19 @@ First custom commit Copyright (C) 2020 YOUR NAME <YOUR@EMAIL.ADDRESS> ``` + - **Configure Git for fist time**: If you have never used Git, then you + have to configure it with some basic information in order to have + essential information in the commit messages (ignore this step if you + have already done it). Git will include your name and e-mail address + information in each commit. You can also specify your favorite text + editor for making the commit (`emacs`, `vim`, etc.). + + ```shell + $ git config --global user.name "YourName YourSurname" + $ git config --global user.email your-email@example.com + $ git config --global core.editor vim + ``` + - **Your first commit**: You have already made some small and basic changes in the steps above and you are in the `master` branch. So, you can officially make your first commit in your project's history. But |