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Expand Up @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ $ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email [email protected]
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Again, you need to do this only once if you pass the `--global` option, because then Git will always use that information for anything you do on that system.
Again, you need to do this only once if you pass the `--global` option, because then Git will always use that information for anything you do while logged in as you on that system.
If you want to override this with a different name or email address for specific projects, you can run the command without the `--global` option when you're in that project.

Many of the GUI tools will help you do this when you first run them.
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