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JoschJava
JoschJava

Reputation: 1212

"DontNeedGithubAccount" instead of username when pushing to Github with Intellij Idea

I'm trying to push to my github account from Intellij. Everything is working correctly. However, when I go from the browser into Github, instead of my github username the name "DontNeedGithubAccount" is being shown for the commits. I'm surprised that Google only has a few entries when searching for "DontNeedGithubAccount" but none of them are even remotely helpful.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (1)

JoschJava
JoschJava

Reputation: 1212

Thanks to Ped7g, I figured it out: In your git config (.git/Config), you need to add 

[user]
      name = github_username
      email = [email protected]

You can also achieve this by doing (use --local for current or --global for all repos)

git config --local user.name github_username
git config --local user.email [email protected]

The username must match the one on Github. If you additionally provide the same email you can click on your username and get to your account.

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Upvotes: 1

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