How to use git (git config --global)?
Not sure where "smcho" comes from, but the setting to set your name is user.name:
git config --global user.name "Your Name"You can set your e-mail address too:
git config --global user.email "name@domain.example"I guess the reason it complains about the lack of a section is that the name of the parameter to set probably needs to be in two parts: section.parameter_name (You can see the sections names within [] if you look in the configuration file, for example in .git/config).
(None of this is specific to OSX as far as I'm aware.)
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 isthe command needs to be:
git config --global user.name "Your Name here only"