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git config commands need double quotes instead of single quotes
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You might want to test this on other devices/OSs, and if this doesn't work across the board then there should be a note that different quotes are needed based on your OS.

I'm on a freshly reformatted Windows 10 Pro, using the classic Windows Command Prompt, and I noticed that when using single quotes, the value gets cut off at whitespace:

```cmd
C:\Users\Dean>git config --global user.name 'Jane Doe'

C:\Users\Dean>git config --global --list
user.name='Jane

C:\Users\Dean>git config --global --unset-all user.name

C:\Users\Dean>git config --global user.name "Jane Doe"

C:\Users\Dean>git config --global --list
user.name=Jane Doe
```
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daattali authored Sep 26, 2023
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In the shell (Appendix \@ref(shell)):

``` bash
git config --global user.name 'Jane Doe'
git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
git config --global user.name "Jane Doe"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global --list
```

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