First time setup

First time setup

Checking Your Settings

If you want to check your configuration settings, you can use the git config --list command to list all the settings Git can find at that point:

git config --list

user.name=John Doe
user.email=[e-mail]
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=auto
color.diff=auto
...

Set your Identity

The first thing you should do when you install Git is to set your user name and email address. This is important because every Git commit uses this information, and it’s immutably baked into the commits you start creating:

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email [e-mail]

Many of the GUI tools will help you do this when you first run them. After finishing the above step, you can again check your settings using the previous command.