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git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
This is to tell git who you are, for labeling any changes you make to the code. The simplest way to do this is from the command line:
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
This will write the settings into your git configuration file - a file called .gitconfig in your home directory.
You might well benefit from some aliases to common commands.
For example, you might well want to be able to shorten git checkout to git co.
The easiest way to do this, is to create a .gitconfig file in your home directory, with contents like this:
[core]
editor = emacs
[user]
email = you@yourdomain.example.com
name = Your Name Comes Here
[alias]
st = status
stat = status
co = checkout
[color]
diff = auto
status = true
(of course you’ll need to set your email and name, and may want to set your editor). If you prefer, you can do the same thing from the command line:
git config --global core.editor emacs
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
git config --global alias.st status
git config --global alias.stat status
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status true
These commands will write to your user’s git configuration file ~/.gitconfig.
To set up on another computer, you can copy your ~/.gitconfig file, or run the commands above.
In your ~/.gitconfig file alias section:
wdiff = diff --color-words
so that git wdiff gives a nicely formatted output of the diff.
To enforce summaries when doing merges(~/.gitconfig file again):
[merge]
summary = true