The first thing to do before starting to use Git is to set a user name and email address. This is important because every Git commit uses this information.

Prerequisites

  • The Visual Studio Code Git extension installed.

Procedure

To configure Git identity using the Che user interface, go to in Preferences.

  1. Open File > Settings > Open Preferences:

    git config identity

  2. In the opened window, navigate to the Git section, and find:

     user.name
 user.email

    And configure the identity.

To configure Git identity using the command line, open the terminal of the Che-Theia container.

  1. Navigate to the My Workspace view, and open Plugins > theia-ide…​ > New terminal:

    terminal git command

  2. Execute the following commands:

    $ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

Che-Theia permanently stores this information and restores it on future workspace starts.