If I committed to github with a wrong local credentials (username and password), will it be possible to change the committer name on github? This issue can happen if you have two git accounts! By the way I'n not asking how to reconfigure your local git account.
1- configure your new username and email with
change username: git config username.user <username>
change email: git config username.email <email>
2- run this command git commit --amend -C HEAD --reset-author
3- run this command git push --force
This will change the other in the last commit.
You can change the last commit locally with
git commit --amend --author="Author Name <email#address.com>"
Then do a
git push --force
This will force the authored commit over the top of the old one.
In my case, I have two GitHub accounts (A and B). I had created a repository using A and in local while configuring git,used email id of B account. So whenever I was pushing the code from my local, git was inferring the account B as author. So even though, I had used credentials of Account A, it was still showing author B for all commits done using local machine.
Fix
Configured email in local for Account A and issue got resolved. Further, all commits were showing correct author as A.
For commits to be linked to your Github account, your email or username in your local git configuration should match the one you have on Github.
Check your current Git configuration:
git config --global --list
Update your email or your username as the same value in your Github account:
git config --global user.email "xyz#gmail.com"
git config --global user.name XYZ
git config --global user.username xyz
(Optional) If you want to change previous commits to reflect your new email/username. Be careful, though, if the repository have a multi-user commits, this will change all commits to have the same new author.
git filter-branch -f --env-filter "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Newname'; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='new#email'; GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='Newname'; GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='new#email';" HEAD
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I'm trying to push to my github account from Intellij. Everything is working correctly. However, when I go from the browser into Github, instead of my github username the name "DontNeedGithubAccount" is being shown for the commits. I'm surprised that Google only has a few entries when searching for "DontNeedGithubAccount" but none of them are even remotely helpful.
Thanks to Ped7g, I figured it out: In your git config (.git/Config), you need to add
[user]
name = github_username
email = github_email#example.com
You can also achieve this by doing (use --local for current or --global for all repos)
git config --local user.name github_username
git config --local user.email github_email#example.com
The username must match the one on Github. If you additionally provide the same email you can click on your username and get to your account.
I'm a beginner to GitHub.I need to send a pull request to the master branch.
when i typed the code
git push origin master
It gives me the error
fatal: unable to access
'https://github.com/www-prolificme-com/mahawiki/': The requested URL
returned error: 403
Updated
You mentioned you are trying to pull from git but the command is git push. Anyways, most probably you are getting this error because your repo url is not set locally.
If this is the first time you are sending git request from your system, you might want to setup your username by git config --global user.name "John Doe"
If you have already used git on your system, try checking the git configuration on your system using git config --list command to check whether your repo URL is setup or not.
If the url is not setup run git remote set-url origin https://github.com/www-prolificme-com/mahawiki/
Run git remote -v to verify if your url is setup
git add .
git commit -m "your message"
git push origin master
Remove/Update the saved credentials:
Click Start
Search for 'Credential Manager'
Select 'Windows Credentials Manager' > 'Windows Credentials'
Search for the credentials that you want to remove/update
Click on the credential entry > Click 'Edit' or 'Remove'
your repo is not setting locally
so, you seemed crash message
first
git config --list
to showing your git repo set list
and
git remote set-url origin <your git repo address>
to access git repo and git add . to add your files to git container
git commit -m "your git commit message"
this is your git commit message version or anything possible
git push origin master
finally your files pushing on git repo
it's done!
try it
I got this same problem then I try to this below command.
step 1:
git config --global user.email "user email"
step 2:
git config --global user.name "user name"
After running those commands, you can use this command to push your code:
git push origin master
Even if you set all credentials and other setups in the local machine, you might face this problem.
Currently, GitHub uses 'personal access token' so when or after creating personal access token you must check the Select scopes.
You select all you need and then push again.
It will be pushed successfully.
If nothing working please check if you have checked the below checkboxes while creating token
Whenever I try to commit a file to github i get the following error:
vanes#vanessaddiniz MINGW64 ~/HTML-CSS-and-JS---coursera/site (master)
$ git commit -m "Homepage"
*** Please tell me who you are.
Run
git config --global user.email "you#example.com"
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 'vanes#vanessaddiniz.(none)')
This is the frst time I try to do this. I've just started a course on coursera and I did everything exactly as done in the video and everythig was going fine until now. How do i fix this? Anyone who can help me, thanks in advance!
P.S: I'm using Windows.
Git always requires an identification while making a commit to a repository. The identification it uses is either your name or email address. This will be used to show commits which belong to users in Git history. The above output already shows you what you need to do. Run the below commands with your name and email address filled.
git config --global user.email "Your email"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
After this you should be able to commit to git.
I want to access my github repo from two different computers, using one github account. Everything works fine on the computer that I created the repo on. It's just this second computer that is messed up
I successfully set up a repo on github. Now I want to clone it on another machine so that I have push/pull access.
I made a public key on the second machine and specified my email as the email associated with github
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "MYEMAIL#gmail.com",
then copied it to the SSH keys on the github website.
I cloned the repo like this
git clone https://github.com/MYUSERNAME/MYREPO
Next I edited the "url = " line in the .git/config file so that it said
url = ssh://git#github.com/MYUSERNAME/MYREPO
Both of my computers are configured to have the same user.name, USERNAME and github.user based on my github account settings. I also configured the API token with the same token on each computer.
git config --global user.name "FIRST LAST"
git config --global user.email "MYUSERNAME#gmail.com"
git config --global github.user MYUSERNAME
Yet, when I try to push, this happens:
>> git push origin master
Permission denied (publickey).</code>
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
The issue was a naming one, as the OP erin mentions in the comments:
I named my public key "github.pub" rather than "id_rsa.pub"
For ssh to work, using default naming convention is important.
See, for instance:
"git clone with ssh issue"
"GITHUB setup - no address associated with name"
I have created a repository on github named pygame. Created a clone and added files and commited.but when I attempt to push I receive the following error:
git push -u origin master
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/amalapk/pygame/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
I can ssh to git#github.com and receive the notice that I logged in successfully, but can't push to my repository.
I recently experienced this problem when setting up a new clone of my github project.
You need to include your username in the URL to your project, in the form
https://user#github.com/project/...
For example, the URL provided for my test github is this:
https://github.com/jdblair/test.git
If I add my username to it, like this, then I'm able to push and pull from github with no problem:
https://jdblair#github.com/jdblair/test.git
It is easiest to use the URL that contains the username starting from when you clone a project.
You can change the URL for an existing project like this:
git remote set-url origin https://user#github.com/project/foo/bar.git
You can use the ssh authentication instead if you want, but that's a separate setup process.
Github now is asking us to use git 1.7.10 or later:
https://help.github.com/articles/error-the-requested-url-returned-error-403
The GitHub Remote page mentions the read/write addresses for a repo:
Make sure your clone address is like:
https://github.com/username/yourRepo.git
And that you have defined:
git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
git config --global user.email "your_email#youremail.com"
Should you use a git address (without ssh), you would also need:
git config --global github.user username
git config --global github.token 0123456789yourf0123456789token # no longer needed
(with your token coming from “Account Settings” > Click “Account Admin.”)
Update 2013: you still can generate a token (see "Creating an access token for command-line use"), but you would use it as a password for https url.
Actually, if you activate the 2FA (two-factor authentication) mechanism on GitHub, you will need a token for your https url (because your regular password would trigger the second-step verification).
See "Configure Git clients, like GitHub for Windows, to not ask for authentication"
See more at "Which remote URL should I use?".
It's all in the remote.
Change your current remote from https://github.com/amalapk/pygame.git to git#github.com:amalapk/pygame.git and enjoy.
To do this... (assuming your current remote is called origin)
git remote set-url origin git#github.com:amalapk/pygame.git
In my case getting rid of such error message was resolved this way:
Person was simply added to github repository as a colaborator.
Thats it - error vanished magically.
Committing to github from server this is what worked for me in the terminal or git bash
To create a remote to github.com try:
git remote add origin https://put your username here#github.com/put your git username here/put your repository name here
To change the remote just do:
git remote set-url origin https://put your username here#github.com/put your git username here/the name of your repository here
Please follow the instructions on http://help.github.com/create-a-repo/
You have cloned your repository with the public read only url.
RTFM