Updated almost 13 years ago by Knödlseder Jürgen

• Configuring git
  • Bare minimum

Configuring git¶

Bare minimum¶

The only absolutely necessary configuration step is identifying yourself and your contact info:

$ git config --global user.name "Joe Public" 
$ git config --global user.email "joe.public@gmail.com" 

Please make sure that you specify your full name as user.name, do not use your abbreviated login name because this makes code modification tracking more cryptic.

In case that you get

error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK.

you may add

$ export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true

before retrieving the code. Alternatively, you may type

$ git config --global http.sslverify "false" 

which disables certificate verification globally for your Git installation.