Configuring your Git email ensures proper commit authorship and maintains accurate project history for team collaboration and code attribution. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve configured Git email settings for thousands of contributors across our development teams and open-source projects. From my expertise, the most effective approach is setting a global email with repository-specific overrides when needed for different contexts. This method provides consistent identity across projects while allowing flexibility for work and personal repositories.