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Set up Git

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Install Git

Section titled “Install Git”

Download Git from git-scm.com/install and run the installer. Git for Windows includes Git Bash: use that terminal for every command here. If your editor has Git built in, it runs the same commands under its interface.

Terminal window
git --version

Tell Git who you are

Section titled “Tell Git who you are”

Git records this identity on every commit you make.

Terminal window
git config --global user.name "Alex Example"
git config --global user.email "alex@example.com"

Three defaults

Section titled “Three defaults”
Terminal window
git config --global init.defaultBranch main

This names the first branch of a new repository main instead of master.

Terminal window
git config --global pull.rebase true

Without this, pulling your own branch after pushing from two machines creates a commit titled something like “Merge branch ‘add-login’ of codebahn.net into add-login”. Rebasing on pull avoids it.

Terminal window
git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true

With this set, git push works on a new branch without typing -u origin <branch> first.

Check

Section titled “Check”
Terminal window
git config --global --list

What’s next

Section titled “What’s next”
The daily loopClone, see what changed, commit, share, update.

Git basics is licensed under CC BY 4.0: copy it, adapt it, keep the credit.