1. Git credentials

Goals

• To be fully prepared to work with Git.

01 Setting up name and email address

If you've never used Git before, the first step is to set up your name and email address. Run the following commands to let Git know your name and email. If Git is already installed, you can skip this step.

Run

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your_email@whatever.com"

02 Default branch name

We will use main as the default branch name. To set this up, run the following command:

Run

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

03 Line endings treatment

Also, for users of Unix/Mac:

Run

git config --global core.autocrlf input
git config --global core.safecrlf warn

For Windows users:

Run

git config --global core.autocrlf true
git config --global core.safecrlf warn