Why Git is not allowing me to commit even after configuration?
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This question seems like a duplicate but it's really not. Just a slight difference that keeps on repeating. git keeps on telling me: "please tell me who you are", even after setting it up. when I run git commit, this is what I get....
$ git commit
*** Please tell me who you are.
Run
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'Obby@ObbyWorkstation.(none)')
But when I run git config --global -l, it gives me all my details...
$ git config --global -l
user.name=myname
user.mail[email protected]
http.proxy=proxy.XX.XX.XX:XXXX
I have changed my name, email and proxy but they are appearing fine when I run the command, even in the .gitconfig file I can see the values are set. what could be the missing thing, because I cannot commit at all. Every time it keeps asking me who I am ?
@sheu told me something that i changed, but still the same problem. when i set --local, still git commit asks me the same question. this is the output
$ git config --local -l
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=false
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
core.symlinks=false
core.ignorecase=true
core.hidedotfiles=dotGitOnly
user.name=myname
user.mail[email protected]
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
That’s a typo. You’ve accidently set user.mail with no e in email. Fix it by setting user.email in the global configuration with
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
Solution 2 - Git
You're setting the global git options, but the local checkout possibly has overrides set. Try setting them again with git config --local <setting> <value>. You can look at the .git/config file in your local checkout to see what local settings the checkout has defined.
Solution 3 - Git
Do you have a local user.name or user.email that's overriding the global one?
git config --list --global | grep user
user.name=YOUR NAME
user.email=YOUR@EMAIL
git config --list --local | grep user
user.name=YOUR NAME
user.email=
If so, remove them
git config --unset --local user.name
git config --unset --local user.email
The local settings are per-clone, so you'll have to unset the local user.name and user.email for each of the repos on your machine.
Solution 4 - Git
I had this problem even after setting the config properly. git config
My scenario was issuing git command through supervisor (in Linux). On further debugging, supervisor was not reading the git config from home folder. Hence, I had to set the environment HOME variable in the supervisor config so that it can locate the git config correctly. It's strange that supervisor was not able to locate the git config just from the username configured in supervisor's config (/etc/supervisor/conf.d).