From 820cb70494c0b955607d01d389453cdf3c371745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89der=20F=2E=20Zulian?= <zulian@eit.uni-kl.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 15:08:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Basic git configs are required before cloning

---
 README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 35d438e9..1b5abd84 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ $ mkdir projects
 $ cd projects
 ```
 
+Configure git on your machine. Some basic configurations follow:
+
+``` bash
+$ git config --global user.name "FirstName OtherNames LastName"
+$ git config --global user.email email@example.com
+$ git config --global credential.helper ’cache --timeout=3600’
+$ git config --global color.ui auto 
+```
+
 Clone the repository.
 
 ``` bash