Initialize

Use Git to manage your file version

Git config

When you push your code to the repositoy, and it will show the author's name and email on the git commit.

All of the author's name and email are setting on the user.name and user.email variable

You can use the following command to update the author's name and email

$ git config --global user.name "KJ"
$ git config --global user.email kj@kejyun.com

Initialize git

If you want to use git to control your files version. You can run the following command to initialize git on your folder.

git init

Initialize git and specify the first branch name

The default branch name is master on the git. But it updates to the main branch on the latest git version. So if you are still using the old version of git. It will use the master branch as the first branch while you initial the git.

If you want to change the first branch name, you can use the -b argument to specify the first branch name.

git init -b main

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