{subsection: Tell git some things about you} -To make patches and diffs a bit more self-documenting, you should now tell git your email address and common name. +To make patches and diffs a bit more self-documenting, you should now tell git your email address and common name. We also fix the renamelimit option to allow git to look farther when merging old or very complex branches. {code} $ git config --global user.name "Your Name"