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brian m. carlson 1f010d6bdf doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files.  While not
wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc,
meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that
could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting.

It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files,
since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows
various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering.  Let's do that
here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where
relevant.  Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new
extension as well.

Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-21 12:56:06 -08:00

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user.name::
user.email::
author.name::
author.email::
committer.name::
committer.email::
The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends
up in the `author` and `committer` fields of commit
objects.
If you need the `author` or `committer` to be different, the
`author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name`, or
`committer.email` variables can be set.
All of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`,
`GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`,
`GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and `EMAIL` environment variables.
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Note that the `name` forms of these variables conventionally refer to
some form of a personal name. See linkgit:git-commit[1] and the
environment variables section of linkgit:git[1] for more information on
these settings and the `credential.username` option if you're looking
for authentication credentials instead.
user.useConfigOnly::
Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before
making new commits in a newly cloned repository.
Defaults to `false`.
user.signingKey::
If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the
key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
commit, you can override the default selection with this variable.
This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.
If gpg.format is set to `ssh` this can contain the path to either
your private ssh key or the public key when ssh-agent is used.
Alternatively it can contain a public key prefixed with `key::`
directly (e.g.: "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier"). The private key
needs to be available via ssh-agent. If not set Git will call
gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand (e.g.: "ssh-add -L") and try to use the
first key available. For backward compatibility, a raw key which
begins with "ssh-", such as "ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier", is treated
as "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier", but this form is deprecated;
use the `key::` form instead.