[SCM] libav/experimental: Explain how to set up user name/email correctly for git.

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The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit 4aaeabcb6ac95ebeec3bb4ed9a4622768b499bc2
Author: Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Jan 17 21:16:41 2011 +0100

    Explain how to set up user name/email correctly for git.

diff --git a/doc/git-howto.txt b/doc/git-howto.txt
index 56232ac..8b1fc14 100644
--- a/doc/git-howto.txt
+++ b/doc/git-howto.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ I. BASICS:
 
     git add [-i|-p|-A] <filenames/dirnames>
 
+  Make sure you have told git your name and email address, e.g. by running
+    git config --global user.name "My Name"
+    git config --global user.email my at email.invalid
+  (--global to set the global configuration for all your git checkouts).
+
   Git will select the changes to the files for commit. Optionally you can use
   the interactive or the patch mode to select hunk by hunk what should be
   added to the commit.

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