The one displayed in the top right corner in Git. Hub is your Git. Hub username – this is the one you use to login to Git. Hub when you enter the site and when you commit over HTTPS, and the one that appears in the URLs of your Git, and hub repositories.
In the Git. Hub Desktop menu, click Preferences. To view your Git. Hub username, click Accounts. To view your Git email, click Git. Note that this email is not guaranteed to be your primary Git, and hub email. In the File menu, click Options. To view your Git. Hub username, click Accounts.
A inquiry we ran across in our research was “How to find the user name and email address in Git?”.
The command git config –list will list the settings. There you should also find user. Name and user., and email. Show activity on this post. Considering what @Robert said, I tried to play around with the config command and it seems that there is a direct way to know both the name and email.
Is my Git username the same as my GitHub username?
The Git username is not the same as your Git, and hub username. You can change the name that is associated with your Git commits using the git config command. The new name you set will be visible in any future commits you push to Git. Hub from the command line. If you’d like to keep your real name private, you can use any text as your Git username.
How do I show or change my Git username (or email address)?
There are at least three ways to show your Git username: Here’s the git config command: which in my case returns: Another way to show your Git username is with this git config command: which returns this output:.
This of course begs the inquiry “How to set Git username in Bash?”
Setting your Git username for a single repository Open Terminal Terminal Git Bash. Change the current working directory to the local repository where you want to configure the name that is associated Set a Git username: $ git config user. Name “Mona Lisa” Confirm that you have set the Git username.
Why is running git config user name within your Git repository important?
Inside your git repository directory, run git config user., and name. Why is running this command within your git repo directory important? If you are outside of a git repository, git config user. Name gives you the value of user. Name at global level. When you make a commit, the associated user name is read at local level.