Mastering Drupal 8

Configuring Git

Git can be configured locally per project or globally. In most cases, we will want to globally configure Git for use with all our projects. We are only concerned with a few configurations to begin with: mainly, our user.name and user.email, which are used for associating our user with commit messages when tracking code.

Begin by opening a Terminal window and executing the following commands:

git config --global user.name "Your Name" 
git config --global user.email "[e-mail]" 

If we ever need to view what our configuration contains, we can execute the following command:

git config --list 

Now that we have Git installed and configured, we will need to decide where we want to store our code.