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Reputation: 28497

How to change Git username that performs commits to Github?

I have two Github accounts: marquizzo(personal) and tb-marco(work).

I create repos under marquizzo, but whenever I make a commit, they always say it's tb-marco who made the commit. See screenshot below:

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How do I make it so marquizzo is the author from here on out? As recommended in this article, I've performed $ git config --global user.name "marquizzo". I've done both in global and inside the repo's folder, and still nothing changes.

I should mention that the only account that has SSH keys enabled is marquizzo, and I have those keys stored in the computer that I'm using, so that should be the author, correct? How can tb-marco be the author if the repo is private? Where is this setting stored, and how can I change it?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 3188

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 28497

User @Torek had the answer. Instead of changing the username in the git configuration, I had to change the e-mail address. I found the instructions on how to do this in the first-time Git setup documentation

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

Upvotes: 2

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