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Re: Reporting Bug in Git Version Control System

From
Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 25, 2016, 08:51 UTC
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Hey Yash,

Junio has explained the problem very well. Since you seem to be a beginner (guessing purely by your email) I will tell you how to fix it.

Remember when you would have first installed git, you would have done something like `git config --global user.name <what ever name>` and `git config --global user.email <what ever email>`, it gets permanently stored in the git configuration file (~/.gitconfig). Now all the commits in git are made with this name and email. If you want to change this, again run the above commands with your new name and email. After that commits will be done with a different name and email. Hope this helps! :)

Regards, Pranit Bauva

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Message 5 of 6 in “Reporting Bug in Git Version Control System”
  1. Yash JainOct 24, 2016
  2. Stefan BellerOct 24, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 24, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 24, 2016
  5. Pranit BauvaOct 25, 2016
  6. Jakub NarębskiOct 31, 2016

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