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 want to use a push and pull automatically in Git Extensions, Sourcetree or any other Git GUI without entering my username and password in a prompt, every time. So how can I save my credentials in...

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:

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.

Jul 12, 2010 · I have 3 separate SSH identities in ~/.ssh/config. The one for school server has a passcode; the 2 for separate work/personal GitHub accts do not. Running git pull kept failing & …

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 …

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...

Nov 12, 2009 · 36 I don't know how this repo tool uses Git (and if you can configure 'repo' to use http protocol), but you can try to trick it using url.<base>.insteadOf configuration variable (see git-config …

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 …