Re: Reporting Bug in Git Version Control System

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 31, 2016, 16:09 UTC
Message-ID: <fb358e96-02e3-e162-94a6-7cf20ee3f7cf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFZEwPNB1PX_NOaYzKr+rUKvbC9s5A1G58v5aS=sGdzPVsv4ww@mail.gmail.com>

W dniu 25.10.2016 o 10:51, Pranit Bauva pisze:

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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! :)

First, per user Git configuration doesn't necessarily go into ~/.gitconfig; it could be in ~/.config/git/config

Second, you can configure user.email and user.name with `git config` or `git config --local`. The information would go into .git/config for specific repository. This might be a better solution if you want different settings for different repositories.

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Jakub Narębski