Not sure where "smcho" comes from, but the setting to set your name is user.name: git config --global user.name "Your Name" You can set your e-mail address too: git config --global user.email …

I was being really dumb, I didnt add the "--global" flag to the edit command! "git config --global --edit" showed the file with all my config changes, "git config --edit" was the file I kept opening and thinking, …

Git writes that information into the configuration file (--global means in the global config file). To have a the correct Author section in a commit like the following example commit:

You're not using the correct syntax: there shouldn't be any equal sign between user.name and "My name", or between user.email and " email@example.com ". For instance, when you run git config - …

Mar 31, 2010 · I highly recommend you use git config --global to place the aliases in ~/.gitconfig instead of .git/config for your current repository.

Feb 18, 2012 · Use symbolic links. Take an example where you have a config file named "config.ini". In the working directory of your git repo, you would do the following: Create a version of the config file …

Oct 7, 2021 · I ran a global configuration command in git to exclude certain files using a .gitignore_global file: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global Is there a way to undo the creation o...

How do I get Git to use a proxy server? I need to check out code from a Git server, but it shows "Request timed out" every time. How do I get around this? Alternatively, how can I set a proxy se...

For me worked only adding the config or ssh_config file that was on the dir ~/.ssh/config on my Linux system on the c:\Program Files\Git\etc\ssh\ directory on Windows.

As Andrejs Cainikovs and Jakuje have pointed out, it is possible to use multiple ssh-config files with a recent enough git. However, you can achieve virtually the same results with a single ssh-config file …