Installing Git

This briefly outlines how to install Git on Ubuntu based distros and includes /home files that (on reboot) customise the console when navigating git projects.

sudo apt install git-all

Then set up the git user’s name and email address using:

git config --global user.name "Joe Bloggs"
git config --global user.email joebloggs@example.com

The aforementioned files should be extracted (or the existing text files updated) in order to produce the following format in a console:

Notice how the main branch is highlighted as (main).