Sep 3, 2012 · git config --global --get user.name shows your username. git config --global --get user.email displays your email. git config --global credential.helper verify credentials. git config --global gui.recentrepo find your recent repo. You may need to specify where you want to read those configurations, Just add the level option:

git config --global user.email git config --global user.name Output: (if git new installation then the output will show empty) [email protected] youroldgoodname Now For set new values. git config --global user.email [email protected] git config --global user.name yournewgoodname For current workspace or project

git config --global user.email "[email protected]" I guess the reason it complains about the lack of a section is that the name of the parameter to set probably needs to be in two parts: section.parameter_name (You can see the sections names within [] if you look in the configuration file, for example in .git/config).

Local Git configuration: File named config in the .git folder of the local repo Of course, seeing is believing, so here's an image showing each file and each location. I pulled the image from an article I wrote on the topic.

Local level configuration is applied to the context repository git config gets invoked in. Local configuration values are stored in a file that can be found in the repo's .git directory: .git/config. If you don’t specify which level you want to work with, this is the default.

Nov 26, 2013 · By default, git config will modify the local config for your current git repo. (There are three levels of config: system, global and local) The git config branch.master.xxx you mention is for setting up an upstream branch to your local branch master, in order for your local repo to know what and where to push to from the master branch.

Feb 7, 2013 · You can conditionally include another Git config file based on your Git directory or branch in Git 2.13 and later. Put your default configuration in file ~/.gitconfig as usual. At the end, conditionally include another configuration file:

Then you should change your username and email from the terminal using git config: $ git config --global user.name "Bob" $ git config --global user.email "[email protected]" Now if you try to push to the repository you will be asked for a username and password. Enter the login credentials you are trying to switch to.

git config --global user.name "Your Name" git config --global user.email [email protected] Git writes that information into the configuration file ( --global means in the global config file). To have a the correct Author section in a commit like the following example commit:

Mar 25, 2010 · git config --global core.eol lf git config --global core.autocrlf input For repos (Git repositories) that were checked out after those global settings were set, everything will be checked out as whatever it is in the repo – hopefully LF (\n). Any CRLF will be converted to just LF on check-in (commit).