Seting up Git on a Debian-based distribution

Now that we have installed Git on our system, we need to set some configuration so that the commit messages that will be generated for you contain your correct information.

Basically, we need to provide the name and email in the config. Let's add these values using the following commands:

$ git config --global user.name "Manish Sethi"
$ git config --global user.email manish@sethis.in