Git Quick Start Guide

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Here are my notes for some of the more commonly used git commands along with initial setup for git in Linux.

To begin, install as follows for Arch Linux:

$ sudo pacman -Sy git

$ yay git

Pacman will include all required depencies.

First, set your name and email address:

$ git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "email@address.com"

Then, set your preferred text editor (if you have one). I use nano: