Initializing repositories and configuring git
There are several way to initiliaze a git repository. The first is used to initialize git in an existing repository. The second is used to retrieve an existing repository.
To initialize a new project, in the project directory, initialize the git repository with:
This will enable git to keep track of changes in this folder, and subfolders by creating a .git hidden folder containing the git skeleton.
The second way is:
git clone https://github.com/Gurnoor30196/OpenStreetMap.git
This will clone the repository containing the documents of this tutorial.
Note
Each new repository should be in its own directory. One git repository should not be created or cloned in an existing git repository, ie a folder you’ve initialized a git repository and its subfolders.
Before continuing let’s configure git. You will have to do this once per computer you use
git config --global:
git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.com``
git config --global core.editor vim
git config color.ui auto
The
--global option corresponds to a user-wide configuration. The configuration will be stored in a hidden repository in your home. You can also configure each git repository individually, by removing this option, or system-wide by replacing the
--global option with
--system. Usually, we just configure repositories user-wide.
You can check your configuration with:
If you’ve configured git several times at different levels, you will probably see several entries twice or three times in the configuration list. The user-wide configuration overrides the system-wide configuration, and the local configuration overrides the user-wide configuration.