The --global option tells Git to always use this information for anything you do on your system. If you omit --global or use --local, the configuration applies only to the current repository.
Set name and email
git config --global user.name "ross"
git config --global user.email "me@email.com"Forward proxy
git config --global http.proxy http://forward-proxy.server.com:port
git config --global https.proxy http://forward-proxy.server.com:portVerify the config
git config --global --list