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20 - Configure global settings with git config

How git config --global Works

You might have a .gitconfig file in your root directory. .gitconfig contains some git settings like your name and email address. We can access some of these settings and change them using git config --global.

Here are some of the settings you can change using git config --global.

  • user.name - We can use this followed by a name to set a new username. git config --global user.name "Jane Doe"

  • user.email - We can use this followed by an email address to ad a new user email. ``git config --global user.email [email protected]`

  • core.editor - We can set our default editor for Git to open up whenever a text editor is necessary using this. Type this followed by the name of your code editor. git config --global core.editor vim

  • alias. - Allows us to create an alias for a specifiec git command. We attach our preferred alias name to alias. followed by the git command wrapped in quotes. git config --global alias.graph 'log --graph --oneline'

  • --list - This will show us the contents of our .gitconfig file.