Basic Git Setup

Global Setup

Before any git activities can be done on a machine you need to "introduce yourself" give your name and email to git.

$ git config --global user.email "yourname@youraddress"
$ git config --global user.name "FName LName"

In addition it is also important that we are setup to guard against CRLF headaches

Once above is done you need to have a repo. This typically is done in one of two ways: clone or create.

One typically makes a git repo copy from some on bitbucket or github using git clone <repo-url>

To create:

Consists of creating files .gitignore .gitattributes and any other repo-config. More details: CRLF Headaches

$ git help topic will give help on topic.
$ git help -w topic may be preferable.
For that yout need to $ apt-get install git-doc