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Git for Programmers

You're reading from  Git for Programmers

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075732
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty
Profile icon Jesse Liberty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Creating Your Repository 3. Branching, Places, and GUIs 4. Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts 5. Rebasing, Amend, and Cherry-Picking 6. Interactive Rebasing 7. Workflow, Notes, and Tags 8. Aliases 9. Using the Log 10. Important Git Commands and Metadata 11. Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame 12. Fixing Mistakes 13. Next Steps
14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Configuring Git – the command line

We'll look at configuring Git to personalize throughout this book, but for now, let's add your name and email address so that every entry into Git is stamped appropriately. Enter the command-line command:

git config --global --edit

This will bring up your editor. Find or create the [user] section and add the following:

[user]
name = Jesse Liberty
email = jesseliberty@gmail.com

You will probably want to use your own name and email address.

There are other entries in the config file. Ignore them for now and save and close the file.

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Git for Programmers
Published in: Jun 2021 Publisher: Packt ISBN-13: 9781801075732
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