Now that you have staged the content you want to snapshot with the
git add command, you run git commit to actually
- record the snapshot. Let's stage and commit all the changes to our
+ record the snapshot.
+ Git records your name and email address with every commit you make,
+ so the first step is to tell Git what these are.
+
+$ git config --global user.name 'Your Name' +$ git config --global user.email you@somedomain.com ++ +
Let's stage and commit all the changes to our
hello.rb file. In this first example, we'll use the
-m option to provide the commit message on the command line.