How do I change the default author and committer in the Eclipse Git plugin?

I am using the Git plugin for Eclipse. I have several authors and committers which are displayed when I start typing in those fields.

How can I provide changes to this list, or remove some author or committer?

Also I want to set my default author and committer which will be displayed by default.

1. Click Window > Preferences > Team > Git > Configuration
2. Click Add Entry and enter the key value pairs:

• Key: user.name

• Value: YourUsernameHere

  And

  • Key: user.email
  • Value: YourEmailHere

Each developer should perform:

git config --global user.name "<name of user>"
git config --global user.email "<email of user>"

If you want to change the author of an existing commit, look here

Changing Your Committer Name & Email Globally

You can run the "git config" command with the --global flag; this will make sure all of your future commits use the given information:

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Changing Your Committer Name & Email per Repository

If you want to use special settings only when working in a certain repository, you can simply omit the --global flag. This makes the configuration valid only in that repository:

$ git config user.name "John Doe"
$ git config user.email "[email protected]"

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Git Cheatsheet: git for dummies

EGit should ask you the first time you commit something. But you can always change it later on, see here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Identifying_yourself

In Eclipse v4.4 (Luna) it will work like the below way.