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Clarify that --global configuration is not applicable system-wide
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book/01-introduction/sections/first-time-setup.asc

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$ 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.
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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 your user on that system.
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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.
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Many of the GUI tools will help you do this when you first run them.

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