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  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  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 me myself gmail com 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 me myself gmail com

User · Accepted Answer

That   s a typo  You   ve accidently set user mail with no e  Fix it by setting user email in the global configuration with   git config --global user email  you example com

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

You re setting the global git options  but the local checkout possibly has overrides set   Try setting them again with git config --local  lt setting gt   lt value gt    You can look at the  git config file in your local checkout to see what local settings the checkout has defined

User · Answer

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

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