Username and email address
suggest changeRight after you install Git, the first thing you should do is set your username and email address. From a shell, type:
git config --global user.name "Mr. Bean"
git config --global user.email mrbean@example.com
git config
is the command to get or set options--global
means that the configuration file specific to your user account will be editeduser.name
anduser.email
are the keys for the configuration variables;user
is the section of the configuration file.name
andemail
are the names of the variables."Mr. Bean"
andmrbean@example.com
are the values that you’re storing in the two variables. Note the quotes around"Mr. Bean"
, which are required because the value you are storing contains a space.
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