1. setting up your name and email:

   • $ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
     $ git config --global user.email [email protected]

     From https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Setup  , good url for reading

2.  bat file to automatically change directory and run git status

Create a new  text file and add the code below. Then rename the file  so that is a batch file. (ie. that its file extension is “.bat” instead of .txt) .

cmd.exe /k "cd C:\Users\path\to\websites\UniserverZ\www\ & git status"

pause > nul