git config

Setting your identity

Git records your name and email address with every commit. These should be set globally so they apply to all repositories on your machine. This is typically one of the first things you do after installing Git.

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

Override for a specific repository

Omitting --global writes the setting to the current repository only, overriding the global value for that repo.

$ git config user.email "work@example.com"

Viewing configuration

List all active settings

$ git config --list

Read a single value

$ git config user.email

Configuring your editor

$ git config --global core.editor "vim"

Other common values: nano, code --wait (VS Code), subl -n -w (Sublime Text).

Setting the default branch name

$ git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Configuring a remote URL

You can also set remote URLs through config, though git remote is the more common approach for managing remote connections.

Config file locations

Local settings always take precedence over global, which take precedence over system.

Once your code is ready, DeployHQ can deploy it to your servers automatically from any Git repository.