First-Time Git Setup
This is a summary of the git official docs
Your identity
The first thing you should do when you install Git is to set your user name and email address. This is important because every Git commit uses this information, and it’s immutably baked into the commits you start creating:
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
Your default branch name
By default Git will create a branch called master when you create a new repository with git init. From Git version 2.28 onwards, you can set a different name for the initial branch.
To set main as the default branch name do:
$ git config --global init.defaultBranch main
Checking your settings
If you want to check your configuration settings, you can use the git config --list command to list all the settings Git can find at that point:
git config --list
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