[PATCH 1/3] getting-started.rst: small polish for the quickstart text

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Thu Apr 26 15:47:03 UTC 2018


dim setup has become quite a bit more user friendly since we've typed
this text.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 getting-started.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getting-started.rst b/getting-started.rst
index 10c3a1125e4d..d035862e3970 100644
--- a/getting-started.rst
+++ b/getting-started.rst
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ you have improvements for dim, see `contributing
 
 If you have a freedesktop.org account and plan to push things on one of the
 drm-xxx repos, you should use the ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/drm-xxx urls
-when adding a remote and, if it's not already done, you should add a new entry in
-~/.ssh/config::
+when adding a remote. Note that dim will ask you to add missing remotes
+automatically, and by default uses the ssh:// url format. To make these urls
+without login names work, you should add a new entry in ~/.ssh/config, if that's
+not yet configured::
 
     $ printf '\nHost git.freedesktop.org\n\tUser <username>' >> ~/.ssh/config
 
-- 
2.17.0



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