Configure Git user information
Configuring Git user information is essential to associate commits with a user. This information is used to identify the author of a commit and is displayed in the commit history.
You can either set this information globally (for all repositories) or locally (for the current repository). In both cases, you need to use git config
to specify the user information.
More specifically, you can use git config user.email <email>
to set the user's email and git config user.name <name>
to set the user's name. You can also use the --global
flag to configure global user information.
# Syntax: # git config [--global] user.email <email> # git config [--global] user.name <name> # Configure user for current repository git config user.email "cool.duck@qua.ck" git config user.name "Duck Quackers" # Configure global Git user git config --global user.email "cool.duck@qua.ck" git config --global user.name "Duck Quackers"