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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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2.2 Configuring Git

Git requires a few pieces of information from you to work. Since it is distributed, there’s no central repository to ask what your name or email address is. You can tell Git this information by using the git config command.

To start with, we’ll configure a few global values. These are the default configuration values used by every repository you create on your system. To set these configuration values as global, add the --global option.

The first two settings that must be set are user.name and user.email. The first is how you want your name to appear when you commit a change, and the second is an email address that other developers can use to contact you regarding your change.

Of course, substitute your name for mine: ...

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