Configure git

Configure git on your system (one time only)

Now you have git installed, you need to set a few variables so git knows who you are and who is making changes to your documentation!

Open your command line application and enter the below, one line at a time (press return after each line). replace “Your Name” with your actual name…

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email your-email-address@example.com
git config --global core.editor=atom --wait

You can then list the contents of your git config file using the command below, and check the above variables have been stored.

git config --list