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You can pick anything you like but it’s best practice to pick an email address that your cloud host will recognize if you want to be able to trace your commits in that cloud host. Cloud host providers like Bitbucket and Github will try and match the email address to known users. See Setting up Bitbucket Access for how to configure your cloud host once your Git Setup is complete.
So it is best practice (but not mandatory) to pick an email address and name which is recognized by your cloud host account. We also use this to help Identify your Iguana so if you have problems we can help you.
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These settings can be found in your global ~/.gitconfig file:
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Next Setting up Bitbucket Access
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