[git-config] git: fatal unable to auto-detect email address

I just cannot commit with git on Ubuntu 14.04

Error message is:

git: fatal unable to auto-detect email address (got "some wrong email")

I tried git-config with and without the --global option setting user.name and user.mail but nothing works

Steps to solve this problem

note: This problem mainly occurs due to which we haven't assigned our user name and email id in git so what we gonna do is assigning it in git

1. Open git that you have installed

2. Now we have to assign our user name and email id

3. Just type git config --user.name <your_name> and click enter (you can mention or type any name you want)

4. Similarly type git config --user.email <[email protected]> and click enter (you have to type your primary mail id)

5. And that's it.

   Have a Good Day!!!.

Make sure you should be in your home directory not in local directory. while setting your username and e-mail ID.

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "github_username"

Then follow the procedure on GitHub.

I get this error when running git stash. Fixed with:

git config --global user.email {emailaddress}
git config --global user.name {name}

For Visual Studio users:

1. Open Visual Studio
2. Click on Git menu > Source Control > Git Repository Settings > General
3. Set the 'User name' and 'Email'
4. Click 'OK'

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'jsiddharth@TheDEN.(none)')

I ran the following,

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "my name"
repo init -u https://<domainname>/platform/manifest

Problem solved after I run those commands with sudo

If git config --global user.email "[email protected]" git config --global user.name "github_username"

Dont work like in my case, you can use:

git config --replace-all user.email "[email protected]"
git config --replace-all user.name "github_username"

I'm running Ubuntu through Windows Subsystem for Linux and had properly set my credentials through Git Bash, including in VS Code's terminal (where I was getting the error every time I tried to commit.)

Apparently even tho VS is using Bash in the terminal, the UI git controls still run through Windows, where I had not set my credentials.

Setting the credentials in Windows Powershell fixed the issue

if you face this problem to type in your git bash

git config --global user.name yourname

git config --global user.email youremail

if problem this cmds please try those cmds vica versa

Had similar problem, I'm fairly new so take this with a grain of salt but I needed to go up a directory first, set the username, then go back down to git repository.

cd ..    
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "your_name"
cd <your repository folder>

Hope this helps anyone else that gets stuck

1st Step : Go for the workstation In my case -> cd /c/Users/rashni/MyWS/WSpace

2nd Step : create a folder In my case -> mkdir config

3rd step : use command In my case -> git config --global user.name "rashni" In my case -> git config --global user.email [email protected]

4th step : To check all configuration(optional) In my case -> git config --list

I had this problem yesterday. Before in the my solution, chek this settings.

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "your_name"

Where "user" is the user of the laptop.

Example: dias@dias-hp-pavilion$ git config --global dias.email ...

So, confirm the informations add, doing:

dias@dias-hp-pavilion:/home/dias$ git config --global dias.email
[email protected]
dias@dias-hp-pavilion:/home/dias$ git config --global dias.name
my_name

or

nano /home/user_name/.gitconfig

and check this informations.

Doing it and the error persists, try another Git IDE (GUI Clients). I used git-cola and this error appeared, so I changed of IDE, and currently I use the CollabNet GitEye. Try you also!

I hope have helped!

I met the same question just now,my problem lies in the ignorance of blank behind the "user.email" and "[email protected]".

 git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

I hope it will help you.