Git can be configured locally per project or globally. In most cases, we will want to globally configure Git for use with all our projects. We are only concerned with a few configurations to begin with: mainly, our user.name and user.email, which are used for associating our user with commit messages when tracking code.

Begin by opening a Terminal window and executing the following commands:

git config --global user.name "Your Name" 
git config --global user.email "your@email.com" 

If we ever need to view what our configuration contains, we can execute the following command:

git config --list 

Now that we have Git installed and configured, we will need to decide where we want to store our code.