The bare minimum to work with Git

Whether starting a solo project or working with someone else you got to have your things right.

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Name and Email:

The first step to configure Git is to configure your user name and email. We can do so by typing the following lines

git config --global user.name "My Name"
git config --global user.email "My Email"

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SSH key

go to ssh folder on your computer and create a new one

cd ~/.ssh

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "My email"

you'll be asked many questions that you should read first but you can ignore those and just press enter for everyone.

now run the following command:

cat ./id_ed25519.pub

now you can get your public key and use it on Github/Gitlab/GitBucket. I'll be showing you how to do it on Github.

Now use the public key we got before.

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Every time you feel needed to edit your .gitconfig you can do so by running the following line on your terminal.

git config --global --edit

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Cool stuff

There is a lot of cool stuff we can configure on Git but I'll list some of them here and leave them for a new article.

Configuring the initial branch

git config --global init.defaultBranch master

Configuring signature with GPG/SSH key

Link: Docs