title: Introduce yourself to Git

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You only have to set this up once per machine.

TL;DR

git config --global user.name 'Jennifer Bryan'
git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
git config --global --list

In words ...

From RStudio, go to Tools > Shell and tell git your name and GitHub email by typing (use your own name and email):

• git config --global user.name 'Jennifer Bryan'

  • This does NOT have to be your GitHub username, although it can be. Another good option is your actual first name and last name. Your commits will be labelled with this name, so this should be informative to potential collaborators.

• git config --global user.email '[email protected]'

  • This must be the email that you used to sign up for GitHub.

These commands return nothing. You can check that git understood what you typed by looking at the output of git config --global --list.

Resources:

• GitHub's advice.
• Quick primer on the shell

Go back to the index for the all the Git stuff.