Ever pushed a commit with the wrong name or email because your Git configuration wasn’t set properly?
It's a common frustration for developers.
In this guide, let’s check out how to globally set your Git credentials so you never have to worry about mismatched commits again.
Steps to follow:
1. Set a Git username with 'git config --global user.name "Your Name"'.
Replace "Your Name" with your actual username, using quotes for multi-word names.
2. ‘git config --global user.name’ retrieves the username value from the project-level Git config.
3. Verify if the user name was correctly added.
4. Set an email address using the command 'git config --global user.email "johndoe@email.com"'.
Replace "johndoe@email.com" with your actual email.
5. ‘git config user.email’ retrieves the value of email from project-level git config.
6. Verify if the email was correctly added.
That's all!
You’ve successfully set your Git username and email globally.
Check out our guide on setting username and email at the project level too.
Now you can be confident that your commits will always use the right credentials, no matter the project.
A small tweak, but it saves you from unnecessary headaches in the future!
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