#1 Git author Unknown Sets the name of the user for all git instances on the system $ git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname" $ git config --global user.email "your_email@youremail.com" [user] name = Bob Gilmore email = me@mydomain.com 3.3 get remote server branch info 3.4 switch to branch #4 Git fetch -- cache the info entered #6 Git check out #7 Git pull you have to tell git where to pull from, in this case from the current directory/repository: git pull . master but when working locally, you usually just call merge (pull internally calls merge): git merge master #8 git git-credentials #9 git merge Solution: Or even better than running git config , you can edit your ~/.gitconfig file directly. Look and see if there's a section for [user] with the relevant information. For example, my ~/.gitconfig has this... (There's no space in front of ...
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