Set up git

January 7, 2018 ยท View on GitHub

Let git know who you are

Type this at a terminal:

git config --global user.email "richel@richelbilderbeek.nl"
git config --global user.name "richelbilderbeek"

Let git remember your password

git will remember your password for ten hours:

Type this at a terminal:

git config --global credential.helper cache
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=36000'

External links

  • Video 'Set up git'

Contents

  1. 1Let git know who you are
  2. 2Let git remember your password
  3. 3External links