Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's give our new repository a bit of information and push this to the server (proving it works):

$ cd example/

Let's start by running a git status to see where we're at:

$ git status# On branch masternothing to commit, working directory clean

Good—it's empty.

Now, let's echo out some text to a file, stage the file, and commit it with a message:

$ echo "Warcraft III was the best Warcraft game." > README$ git add README$ git commit -m "Adding README to repository." *** Please tell me who you are.Run  git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"  git config --global user.name "Your Name"to set your account's default identity.Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.fatal: unable to auto-detect email address ...