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leeyuiwah

Reputation: 7152

git and sourcetree user.name confusion

I have a project which I want to use a different user.name (leeyuiwah), which is different to the global value leeyuiwah-sl), to talk to a certain repo in github.com. I have already updated the project's .git/config but then my command got this error

$ git push -u origin master
remote: Permission to leeyuiwah/brti.git denied to leeyuiwah-sl.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/leeyuiwah/brti.git/': The 
requested URL returned error: 403

I ran this and the settings seem to be right:

$ git config --list | grep -E -e "user.*name"
credential.username=leeyuiwah
user.name=leeyuiwah

But then I realized I had a config file used by SourceTree that stored the wrong name

$ find . -type f | xargs grep leeyuiwah-sl
./.git/sourcetreeconfig.json:      "Username": "leeyuiwah-sl",

So I think I could just edit that JSON file. I did that but it did not help.

Now I am stuck. Any suggestion?

Update

More info as per comment:

$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: https://github.com/leeyuiwah/brti.git
  Push  URL: https://github.com/leeyuiwah/brti.git
  HEAD branch: (unknown)

And

$ git config --list --show-origin | grep leeyuiwah
file:.git/config        
remote.origin.url=https://github.com/leeyuiwah/brti.git
file:.git/config        credential.username=leeyuiwah
file:.git/config        user.name=leeyuiwah
file:.git/config        [email protected]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1238

Answers (1)

Christoph
Christoph

Reputation: 7063

I can only guess, but this was too long for a comment anyway. My git config --list --show-origin looks like this

file:"C:\\ProgramData/Git/config"       core.symlinks=false
...
file:"C:\\Git\\mingw64/etc/gitconfig"   user.name=my name
file:"C:\\Git\\mingw64/etc/gitconfig"   [email protected]
file:"C:\\Git\\mingw64/etc/gitconfig"   credential.helper=manager
...
file:.git/config        branch.master.remote=origin

There are 3 different config files. The last entry if from the local repo. As I am working on windows with only one name, there is only one user.name, ... See here for further details.

If you cannot find different user.names in different config files in your case, something must be wrong (I guess). In other words I would expect something like

file:"C:\\Git\\mingw64/etc/gitconfig"   user.name=my name
...
file:.git/config        user.name=my second name
...

I hope that helps...

Upvotes: 1

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