GIT records your name and email address with every commit you make, so the first step is to tell GIT what these are so you can get credit for your work
PLEASE NOTE, Section I and II below, are not to be followed in order, they are 2 separate Actions (one to create a new local git repo to push to remote GIT, and the other to obtain "clone" an existing repo from GIT).
Please use one or the other for your purposes.
NOTE: Using Project DEVOPS for Sample Usage Examples
I. Version controlling your existing project
"git init" can be used to create a new GIT repository by converting an existing unversioned project to a GIT repository or initializing a new empty repository.