If you’re a Python person, and you are using virtual environments, just:

Depending on what your environment is like, you may get a nasty error the first time you try to do something useful. This happened to me when I setup magpie to work with supervisor. In order to resolve this, I had to set the user.name and user.email fields in git config. The error message on the magpie page will tell you the syntax.

On the main page, there should be a link to configure magpie. (Alternatively, http://localhost:8080/config)

Enter as much info here as you want. Username / Password are not required, but recommended. The only required field is repo. The path from “Init Git Repo” above should be entered here.