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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