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Reputation: 5403

How to change my Git username in terminal?

I was pushing and pulling from git in Terminal then I changed my username on github.com. I went to push some changes and it couldn't push because it was still recognizing my old username.. How do I change/update my username on git in terminal?

Upvotes: 530

Views: 1439878

Answers (19)

Omkar Manjare
Omkar Manjare

Reputation: 53

If you are accessing it from windows , after running the specific command that have been mentioned about username and password, do following thing :

  1. Create a personal access token from your git hub profile section
  2. Go to windows credential manager.
  3. Either create new entry with github.com , username as 'Personal Access Token' and value is your personal token you created in first step. Else ,if there is entry already exists, update the value with new token

Upvotes: 0

voillentKiller0
voillentKiller0

Reputation: 11

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Remove these two credentials from Windows credentials managers. and then run the git command it will again pop up the login page where you can log in from a different account.

Upvotes: 0

Oriol
Oriol

Reputation: 12740

  1. In your terminal, navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in.
  2. Execute git config --list to check current username & email in your local repo.
  3. Change username & email as desired. Make it a global change or specific to the local repo:
    git config --global user.name "Full Name"
    git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

    Per repo basis you could also edit .git/config manually instead.
  4. Done!

When performing step 2 if you see credential.helper=manager you need to open the credential manager of your computer (Win or Mac) and update the credentials there

Here is how it look on windows enter image description here

Troubleshooting? Learn more

Upvotes: 678

awaik
awaik

Reputation: 12345

For the Github

git config --local user.name "another_username" 
git config --local user.email "[email protected]"
git remote set-url origin https://[email protected]/repo_url

Upvotes: 7

sravan ganji
sravan ganji

Reputation: 5125

there are 3 ways we can fix this issue

method-1 (command line)

To set your account's default identity globally run below commands

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.password "your password"

To set the identity only in current repository , remove --global and run below commands in your Project/Repo root directory

git config user.email "[email protected]"
git config user.name "Your Name"
git config user.password "your password"

Example:

email -> organization email Id
name  -> mostly <employee Id> or <FirstName, LastName>

**Note: ** you can check these values in your GitHub profile or Bitbucket profile

method-2 (.gitconfig)

create a .gitconfig file in your home folder if it doesn't exist. and paste the following lines in .gitconfig

[user]
    name = FirstName, LastName
    email = [email protected]
    password = abcdxyz
[http]
    sslVerify = false
    proxy = 
[https]
    sslverify = false
    proxy = https://corp\\<uname>:<password>@<proxyhost>:<proxy-port>
[push]
    default = simple
[credential]
    helper = cache --timeout=360000000
[core]
    autocrlf = false

Note: you can remove the proxy lines from the above , if you are not behind the proxy

Home directory to create .gitconfig file:

windows : c/users/< username or empID >

Mac or Linux : run this command to go to home directory cd ~

or simply run the following commands one after the other

git config --global --edit
git commit --amend --reset-author

method-3 (git credential pop up)

windows :

Control Panel >> User Account >> Credential Manager >> Windows Credential >> Generic Credential 
>> look for any github cert/credential and delete it.

then running any git command will prompt to enter new user name and password (Note: some times you will not be prompted for password for git pull).

Mac :

command+space >> search for "keychain Access" and click ok >> 
search for any certificate/file with gitHub >> delete it.

then running any git command will prompt to enter new user name and password(Note:some times you will not be prompted for password for git pull).

Upvotes: 234

Ohad Cohen
Ohad Cohen

Reputation: 6152

In linux (Ubuntu 18.04) the username / password are saved as cleartext in the file ~/.git-credentials, just edit the file to use your new username / password.

The file format is quiet easy, each line contains credentials for one user / domain, in the following format:

https://<username>:<password>@github.com
https://<username2>:<password2>@bitbucket.com
...

Upvotes: 2

Abiy Menberu
Abiy Menberu

Reputation: 133

I myself have recently faced the same problem. In my case I had two github accounts: work and personal. I wanted to push my starter code to the repository in my personal account but the global configuration had my work account. I didn't want to bother with reconfiguring the global every single time I had to switch between work and personal projects. So I used these commands to set my username and email for that specific personal project folder.

The solution:

$ git config user.name "Alex"

$ git config user.email "[email protected]"

$ git config credential.username "your_account_name_here"

Upvotes: 3

bunny
bunny

Reputation: 1366

  1. In your terminal, navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in.
  2. Execute git config --list to check current username & email in your local repo.
  3. Change username & email as desired. Make it a global change or specific to the local repo:

git config [--global] user.name "Full Name"

git config [--global] user.email "[email protected]"

Per repo basis you could also edit .git/config manually instead.

  1. Done!

When performing step 2 if you see credential.helper=manager you need to open the credential manager of your computer (Win or Mac) and update the credentials there

Upvotes: 4

Ahmadreza Vakil
Ahmadreza Vakil

Reputation: 31

If you have created a new Github account and you want to push commits with your new account instead of your previous account then the .gitconfig must be updated, otherwise, you will push with the already owned Github account to the new account.

In order to fix this, you have to navigate to your home directory and open the .gitconfig with an editor. The editor can be vim, notepad++, or even notepad.

Once you have the .gitconfig open, just modify the "name" with your new Github account username that you want to push with.

Upvotes: 0

Devendra Singraul
Devendra Singraul

Reputation: 951

**Check by executing this** 
git config --list
**Change user email** 
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
**Change user name**
git config --global user.name "user"
**Change user credential name** 
git config --global credential.username "new_username"
**After this a window popup asking password.
Enter password and proceed.**

Upvotes: 8

DalyaG
DalyaG

Reputation: 3117

  1. EDIT: In addition to changing your name and email You may also need to change your credentials:

  • To change locally for just one repository, enter in terminal, from within the repository

    git config credential.username "new_username"

  • To change globally use

    git config --global credential.username "new_username"

    (EDIT EXPLAINED: If you don't change also the user.email and user.name, you will be able to push your changes, but they will be registered in git under the previous user)

  1. Next time you push, you will be asked to enter your password

    Password for 'https://<new_username>@github.com':

Upvotes: 213

goulpan
goulpan

Reputation: 496

If you have cloned your repo using url that contains your username, then you should also change remote.origin.url property because otherwise it keeps asking password for the old username.

example:

remote.origin.url=https://<old_uname>@<repo_url>

should change to

remote.origin.url=https://<new_uname>@<repo_url>

Upvotes: 1

MD SHAYON
MD SHAYON

Reputation: 8063

Firstly you need to change credentials from your local machine

  1. remove generic credentials if there is any

Generic credentials

  1. configure new user and email (you can make it globally if you want)
git config [--global] user.name "Your Name"
git config [--global] user.email "[email protected]"
  1. now upload or update your repo it will ask your username and password to get access to github

Upvotes: 6

Fredy Gonzalo Captuayo Novoa
Fredy Gonzalo Captuayo Novoa

Reputation: 151

There is a easy solution for that problem, the solution is removed the certificate the yours Keychain, the previous thing will cause that it asks again to the user and password.

Steps:

  1. Open keychain access

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  1. Search the certificate gitHub.com.

  2. Remove gitHub.com certificate.

  3. Execute any operation with git in your terminal. this again ask your username and password.

For Windows Users find the key chain by following:

Control Panel >> User Account >> Credential Manager >> Windows Credential >> Generic Credential

Upvotes: 14

Pravin Bansal
Pravin Bansal

Reputation: 4691

usually the user name resides under git config

git config --global user.name "first last"

although if you still see above doesn't work you could edit .gitconfig under your user directory of mac and update 

[user]
        name = gitusername
        email = [email protected]

Upvotes: 1

Emmanuel Benson
Emmanuel Benson

Reputation: 418

From your terminal do:

git config credential.username "prefered username"

OR

git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"

Upvotes: 16

Developer Sheldon
Developer Sheldon

Reputation: 2160

I recommend you to do this by simply go to your .git folder, then open config file. In the file paste your user info:

[user]
    name = Your-Name
    email = Your-email

This should be it.

Upvotes: 15

Raja Ram T
Raja Ram T

Reputation: 9141

Please update new user repository URL

 git remote set-url origin https://[email protected]/repository.git

I tried using below commands, it's not working:

git config user.email "[email protected]"
git config user.name  "user"

OR

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "user"

Upvotes: 34

Steven V
Steven V

Reputation: 16595

You probably need to update the remote URL since github puts your username in it. You can take a look at the original URL by typing 

git config --get remote.origin.url

Or just go to the repository page on Github and get the new URL. Then use

git remote set-url origin https://{new url with username replaced}

to update the URL with your new username.

Upvotes: 244

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