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FRALEWHALE
FRALEWHALE

Reputation: 65

Git config issue w/VSCode and Ubuntu

After some trial and error I was able to change the permissions of the .gitconfig file in my local users /home/ directory. This permission change allowed me to add both user.name and user.email. I apologize if this wasted anyone's time and I do appreciate all of the help. Specifically @phd, @jD3V and @VonC

I am really banging my head against my desk with this one.

I have a remote GitHub repo that I have cloned locally to my machine and I am making edits to the playbook. When I go to commit the changes to GitHub VSCode throws an error:

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

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

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: no email was given and auto-detection is disabled
[2022-04-23T18:08:35.512Z] > git config --get-all user.name [1ms]

I have run into this issue before, no big deal. This is a fresh install of Pop!_OS so I had not yet edited my git config. I enter the following -

git config --global user.name My_GitHub_Username

Followed by -

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

When entered they both seem to run correctly as I do not get any errors thrown when entered. However when I check the git config with git config --list nothing returns in the terminal. When I run it again running as root, I see my username -

username@pop-os:~$ sudo git config --list
user.name=My_GitHub_username
[email protected]

Trying to commit the code again throws the same error. I have checked similar threads/solutions here, here and here, all of which have not solved my issue.

I forgot to include initially that I have tried running both as sudo and have the same results. Here is the output of `sudo nano ~/.gitconfig -

[alias]
    lg1 = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all
    lg2 = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)%n''          %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)' --all
    lg = !"git lg1"
[color]
    ui = true
[help]
    autocorrect = 3

Would I just go ahead and add the [user] alias with the user.name and user.email options filled in?

Any ideas what I might be doing incorrectly? I am not super familiar with git but would love any and all advice.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1334

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329082

To exand on the comment, git config --global do modify ~/.gitconfig, which is /home/<you>/.gitconfig.

That differs from sudo xxx, which executes command as root.
root home folder is /root.
And /root/.gitconfig was not modified by your initial git config commands.

In general, not using root, is possible, is a sensible route to follow.

Upvotes: 2

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