Configuration¶
Git doesn’t really require a lot of configuration to use (typically the minimum configuration is just a username and email address for when you make commits), but it does have some basic configuration options. Configuration options can be set for an individual repository, globally for all respositories owned by the current user, or system wide. To set a configuration for the current repository, you use the config command:
$ git config core.ignoreCase true
Adding the –global switch sets a configuration globally for the current user:
$ git config --global user.name "Jeffrey Poore"
Adding the –system switch sets a configuration globally for all users:
$ git config --system core.bigFileThreshold 2g
There are too many configuration options to really cover here, but you can find all the configuration options here: