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git setup

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "you@youraddress.com"
$ git config --global push.default matching
$ git config --global alias.co checkout
$ git init

git setup

#view all settings
$ git config --list --show-origin 

#set global configurations for your git
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
git config --global init.defaultBranch main

git setup

## set your git name and email
git config --global user.name "your username"
git config --global user.email "your email"
## then try to clone a repo
git clone <git-repo-url>

## after that if you are not loged in then git will ask for username and password
## provide the username and password (use personal access token insted of password)
## If you want to avoid providing a username and password every time, you can just store that username and password.
git config --global credential.helper store

## you can check the configaretion with this command
nano ~/.gitconfig
## The username and password will be saved in the file ~/.git-credentials. in the format
nano ~/.git-credentials

## You can also opt for cache to store the username and password instead of disk.
git config --global credential.helper cache

Git setup

git init [directory]

git server setup

$ sudo adduser git
$ su git
$ cd
$ mkdir .ssh && chmod 700 .ssh
$ touch .ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys