# Git setup

## User setup

### Username

When you make a commit, what would you want to show as your name?

* Open your **Terminal**
    
* Configure your GitHub account globally on your machine (remove `--global` if you wish to configure your account just for the current repository):
    

```bash
$ git config --global user.name "username"
```

Let's confirm we have set this up correctly:

```bash
$ git config --global user.name
> username
```

### E-mail address

When you make a commit, what would you want to show as your e-mail address?

* Open Terminal
    
* As in the above with a `username`:
    

```bash
$ git config --global user.email "example@email.com"
```

* Confirm:
    

```bash
$ git config --global user.email
> example@email.com
```

## Repository (repo) setup

To create a **repository (repo)** for the *current* working folder (assuming you have created and entered into it already):

```bash
$ git init
```

## Remote repo setup

To connect the (already-created) **remote** version of our local repo:

```bash
$ git remote add [remotename] [repoURL]
```

Replace:

* `[remotename]` with any name (most often, this is `origin`)
    
* `[repoURL]` with the GitHub repository URL in the form:
    
    * https://github.com/username/\[repo\].git
        

### Removing the remote repository

For whatever reason, we can also delete the remote with this command from the local working folder:

```bash
$ git remote remove [remotename]
```