Configuring Git

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Seting up your profile

Open a terminal and type/paste the following:

# Set your name and email address
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your@em.ail"

# Pwetty colows
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.interactive auto
git config --global color.status auto

# list your config
git config --list
cat .gitconfig

Every commits will be associated to this profile, to have a different profile for each git repos you can override these values in the .git folder inside the project repos.