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Configure Git User Name and Email Address

#linux #gitea #git #dev

After clonning the git repository, do the local repository configuration, particularly set user name and email address.

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When you doing first commit to newly clonned repo via command line like

git commit -m "test commit msg"
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you might receive a sencible message and git do what expected:

[master 3506e11] test commit msg
 Committer: megaadmin <megaadmin@myhost>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly
...
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but if you use vs code, you might get a message like

How

Basically what we need to do is to run git with configure command:

git config user.email "root@microsoft.com"
git config user.name "bg"
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Just replace email and username with yours.

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