Getting Started with Git

Setting Git username

For every repository on computer

Set a Git username:

$ git config --global user.name "Mona Lisa"

Confirm that you have set the Git username correctly:

$ git config --global user.name

Mona Lisa

For a single repository

Change the current working directory to the local repository:

$ cd path/to/repository

Set a Git username:

$ git config user.name "Mona Lisa"

Confirm that you have set the Git username correctly:

$ git config user.name

Mona Lisa

Setting your email address

For every Git commits

Set an email address in Git:

$ git config --global user.email "email@example.com"

Confirm that you have set the email address correctly in Git:

$ git config --global user.email email@example.com

For a single repository:

$ git config user.email "email@example.com"

Confirm that you have set the email address correctly in Git:

$ git config user.email email@example.com