Git

Configuring Git

First, configure your Git user.

# substitute "your name" with your GitHub name
git config --global user.name "your name"

# substitute example@gmail.com with your e-mail
git config --global user.email example@gmail.com

Once your're done, the next step will be set our default branch to main.

git config --global init.default branch main

And if you want to know more about git config you can use the following command

git config -h

Or you can also take a look into the git docmentation (you don't have to be connected to the internet to open it).

git config -h

# and if you want more detailed information about an especific command,use this one and just add the command to end
git help config

Initialize Git

Choose the directory you want to turn into a Git repository.

# example
cd C:\User\YOURUSER\Documents\git-study

And now that your're into the directory, you can initialize a respository using

git init

Now if look at your directory you will see that you have a .git directory. This means that everything has gone correctly.

But anyway, lets check if everything has really gone Ok by simply running

git status

If that returns something like that, then its all Ok.

On branch main

No commits yet

Untracked files:
    (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        index.html
        README.md

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)