| 2 | Configuring Git |
Git requires some configuration to work. You must tell Git your name and your email address since there is no central repository to keep track of that information. Git uses both to calculate the commit IDâan SHA-1[11] hashâthat identifies each commit.
The first two commands on the next page use
--global to specify that they are
configuration values for every repository you interact with on this
machine. The configuration file is stored in
~/.gitconfig. You can edit the file directly
in addition to using the git config
command.
You can set every setting on a global or per-repository basis. By
leaving --global out of the
command, the settings will be stored in the repositoryâs
.git/config file.
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