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mani_nz
mani_nz

Reputation: 5652

Change email address in Git

I have a project hosted in Git stash (now rebranded as Bitbucket Server). It is built using Jenkins. Now I made a typo while installing my Git locally. Like @ab.example instead of @abc.example

After every build, Jenkins sends email notifications and it picks up my incorrect email address from Git commit and tries to send it.

Even after I have changed the email address in my local Git, I still see Jenkins sending the emails to the old incorrect address.

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 456

Views: 574958

Answers (7)

Nigh7Sh4de
Nigh7Sh4de

Reputation: 455

I found what I was looking for in this guide (specifically, Method 1): https://blog.hao.dev/how-to-use-different-git-emails-for-personal-and-work-repositories-on-the-same-machine

Basically, you can have a global config file that conditionally includes specific config files per path, in my case:

  • ~/.gitconfig-personal (where I set user.email to be my personal Github email)
  • ~/.gitconfig-work (where I set user.email to be my work Github email)
  • ~/.gitconfig (where I [include] my personal config to be the default, and then a [includeIf] to override the config for specific paths)

Upvotes: 5

user3143487
user3143487

Reputation: 355

This will overwrite the user's name and email in the last commit.

"git -c user.name="your name" -c [email protected]
commit --amend --reset-author"

Upvotes: 22

Marc
Marc

Reputation: 7944

Locally set email-address (separately for each repository)

  1. Open Git Bash.

  2. Change the current working directory to the local repository in which you want to set your Git config email.

  3. Set your email address with the following command:

git config user.email "[email protected]"
  1. Confirm that you have set your email address correctly with the following command.
git config user.email

Globally set email-address (only used when nothing is set locally)

  1. Open Git Bash.

  2. Set your email address with the following command:

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
  1. Confirm that you have set your email address:
git config --global user.email

Or using environment variables

  1. [email protected]
  2. [email protected]

PD: Info from GitHub official guide

Upvotes: 759

gdm
gdm

Reputation: 7978

The commands explained set the email in the .git/config locally:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://username:[email protected]/username/repo.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "beta"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/beta
[user]
        email = [email protected]

Upvotes: 5

Endriyas
Endriyas

Reputation: 606

To set your global username/email configuration:

  1. Open the command line.

  2. Set your username:

    git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"

  3. Set your email address:

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

To set repository-specific username/email configuration:

  1. From the command line, change into the repository directory.

  2. Set your username:

    git config user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"

  3. Set your email address:

    git config user.email "[email protected]"

  4. Verify your configuration by displaying your configuration file:

    cat .gitconfig

For more information and for other version control systems .. => SeeThis

Upvotes: 13

Donald L Wilson
Donald L Wilson

Reputation: 1531

According to the git documentation, all you should have to do is re-run

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

Then just check to make sure the change took effect

$ git config --list

This is listed in the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

1.6 Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup

Upvotes: 138

Jan Pytlík
Jan Pytlík

Reputation: 1

Edit your email directly in the JENKINS_HOME/users/YOUR_NAME/config.xml configuration file and restart the Jenkins server

Upvotes: 0

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