How to use git (git config --global)?

Question

The Pragmatic Guide to GIT has the following \"Git uses both to calculate the commit ID—a SHA-111 hash—that identifies each commit.\" in page 21.

And in page 22, I can u

Answer 1

A simple answer to this question/problem is that do not replace "user.name" with your actual git username leave the user.name as it is the command needs to be:

git config --global user.name "Your Name here only"