Sunday, January 19, 2014

git user.name has multiple values


warning: user.name has multiple values
error: cannot overwrite multiple values with a single value
       Use a regexp, --add or --set-all to change user.name.
[user@fc ~]$

[user@fc ~]$ cat ~/.gitconfig
remove the name here.

Add the new name in /etc/bashrc
[user@fc ~]$ vi /etc/bashrc
git config --global user.name "Firstname lastname"

[user@fc ~]$

Refer:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Setup


To set email, use
$ git config --global user.email  "youname@yours.com"

To verify the results, use 
$ git config -l 




2 comments:

  1. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Setup
    $ git config --global user.name "John Doe"

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