Git cli get user info from username

Question

Is there a way to get the name of the user  given only their username   Something like this output git show  lt username gt   I know this doesn t work   username  username name  First Last email  email address   I know I can do this with a GitHub api call  but would prefer to keep it within the CLI

User · Accepted Answer

There are no  usernames  in Git   When creating a commit with Git it uses the configuration values of user name  the real name  and user email  email address   Those config values can be overridden on the console by setting and exporting the environment variables GIT  COMMITTER AUTHOR   NAME EMAIL    Git doesn t know anything about github s users  because github is not part of Git  So you re only left with an API call to github  I guess you could do that from the command line with a little scripting

User · Answer

Use this to see the logged in user  the actual git account    git config credential username   And as other answers the user email and user name  this is differenct from user credentials    git config user name git config user email   To see the list of all configs   git config --list

User · Answer

git config --list  git config -l will display your username and email together  along with other info

User · Answer

Add my two cents  if you re using windows commnad line    git config --list   findstr user name will give username directly    The findstr here is quite similar to grep in linux

User · Answer

git config user name git config user email   I believe these are the commands you are looking for    Here is where I found them  http   alvinalexander com git git-show-change-username-email-address

User · Answer

You can try this to get infos like    username  git config --get user name user email  git config --get user email   There s nothing like  first name  and  last name  for the user   Hope this will help

User · Answer

While its true that git commits don t have a specific field called  username   a git repo does have users  and the users do have names       If what you want is the github username  then knittl s answer is right   But since your question asked about git cli and not github  here s how you get a git user s email address using the command line   To see a list of all users in a git repo using the git cli   git log --format   an  ae    sort   uniq   To search for a specific user by name  e g    John    git log --format   an  ae    sort   uniq   grep -i john

User · Answer

Try this  git config user name   git config command stores and gives all the information   git config -l   This commands gives you all the required info that you want   You can change the information using   git config --global user name   lt Your-name gt     Similarly you can change many info shown to you using -l option

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