Clarify how GITHUB_USER should be setup in the development guide. (#947)

baodongli · istio-merge-robot · commit 8bb136a8be10 · 2017-09-26T20:56:48.000-07:00
Automatic merge from submit-queue Clarify how GITHUB_USER should be setup in the development guide. Fixes (#918) This is a follow up change to PR #919: Clarify environment variables set in .profile Prior to this small change, the .profile settings were not completely obvious. Now all profile settings that Istio should expect to use are set in one place **Release Note** NONE **Release note**: ```release-note NONE ```
diff --git a/devel/README.md b/devel/README.md
@@ -80,16 +80,17 @@ for how to do this for your platform.
 ### Setting up environment variables
 
 Set up your GOPATH, add a path entry for Go binaries to your PATH, set the ISTIO
-path, and set your GITHUB_USER used later in this document.  These exports are
+path, and set your GITHUB_USER used later in this document. These exports are
 typically added to your ~/.profile:
 
 ```shell
 export GOPATH=~/go
 export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
 export ISTIO=$GOPATH/src/istio.io # eg. ~/go/src/istio.io
 
-# Replace "$GITHUB_USER" below with your github username
-export GITHUB_USER=$USER # replace with actual if different
+# If your github username is not the same as your local user name (saved in the
+# shell variable $USER), then replace "$USER" below with your github username
+export GITHUB_USER=$USER
 ```
 
 Execute a one time operation to contain the Istio source trees.
