Closed btskinner closed 4 years ago
This appears to be the solution
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$ git config --list --show-origin
If you see nothing related to your GitHub user ID or email or the information is incorrect, continue to the next step.
$ git config --global user.name "<username>"
$ git config --global user.email "<email@address.edu>"
replacing <username>
with your GitHub ID or name and <email@address.edu>
with your email, leaving the quotes in both cases
$ git config --list --show-origin
again to confirm that information is now stored (it should print to the Terminal output).
When using git on a Windows machine for the first time, an error keeps occurring that asks for the "user.email" and "user.name". (The problem is described in this RStudio issue.)
The user sees a window with something like this: