Connecting Your Git and GitHub

To configure your Git and GitHub accounts to connect, run these two lines in your terminal:

• git config --global user.name "YOUR USERNAME"
• git config --global user.email "your.email@example.com"

The second key is user.email, not user.mail; Git ignores anything else and will refuse to commit without an email set.

You may need to authenticate your account using the instructions from the previous page.