Setting up Git

So far, we have been using Git just to download files from GitHub. In this section, we will go a bit further by setting up Git locally so we can start committing our files. I will use the same Ubuntu 22.04 LTS management host in the example. If you are using a different version of Linux or other operating systems, a quick search of the installation process should land you at the right set of instructions.

If you have not done so already, install Git via the apt package-management tool:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install -y git
$ git --version
git version 2.34.1 

Once git is installed, we need to configure a few things so our commit messages can contain the correct information:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"
$ git config --list 
user.name=Your Name
user.email=[e-mail]

Alternatively, you can modify the information in the ~/.gitconfig file:

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