How to change my Git username in terminal

Question

I was pushing and pulling from git in Terminal then I changed my username on github com   I went to push some changes and it couldn t push because it was still recognizing my old username   How do I change update my username on git in terminal

User · Answer

If you have cloned your repo using url that contains your username, then you should also change remote.origin.url property because otherwise it keeps asking password for the old username.

example:

remote.origin.url=https://<old_uname>@<repo_url>

should change to

remote.origin.url=https://<new_uname>@<repo_url>

User · Answer

there are 3 ways we can fix this issue method-1  command line  To set your account s default identity globally run below commands git config --global user email  quot you example com quot  git config --global user name  quot Your Name quot  git config --global user password  quot your password quot   To set the identity only in current repository   remove --global and run below commands in your Project Repo root directory git config user email  quot you example com quot  git config user name  quot Your Name quot  git config user password  quot your password quot   Example  email - gt  organization email Id name  - gt  mostly  lt employee Id gt  or  lt FirstName  LastName gt      Note     you can check these values in your GitHub profile or Bitbucket profile method-2   gitconfig  create a  gitconfig file in your home folder if it doesn t exist  and paste the following lines in  gitconfig  user      name   FirstName  LastName     email   FirstName LastName company com  http      sslVerify   false     proxy     https      sslverify   false     proxy   https   corp   lt uname gt   lt password gt   lt proxyhost gt   lt proxy-port gt   push      default   simple  credential      helper   cache --timeout 360000000  core      autocrlf   false  Note  you can remove the proxy lines from the above   if you are not behind the proxy Home directory to create  gitconfig file  windows    c users  lt  username or empID  gt  Mac or Linux   run this command to go to home directory cd   or simply run the following commands one after the other git config --global --edit git commit --amend --reset-author  method-3  git credential pop up  windows   Control Panel  gt  gt  User Account  gt  gt  Credential Manager  gt  gt  Windows Credential  gt  gt  Generic Credential   gt  gt  look for any github cert credential and delete it   then running any git command will prompt to enter new user name and password  Mac   command space  gt  gt  search for  quot keychain Access quot  and click ok  gt  gt   search for any certificate file with gitHub  gt  gt  delete it   then running any git command will prompt to enter new user name and password

User · Answer

Firstly you need to change credentials from your local machine  remove generic credentials if there is any    configure new user and email  you can make it globally if you want   git config  --global  user name  quot Your Name quot  git config  --global  user email  quot email address com quot    now upload or update your repo it will ask your username and password to get access to github

User · Answer

Check by executing this    git config --list   Change user email    git config --global user email  quot email example com quot    Change user name   git config --global user name  quot user quot    Change user credential name    git config --global credential username  quot new username quot    After this a window popup asking password  Enter password and proceed

User · Answer

You probably need to update the remote URL since github puts your username in it  You can take a look at the original URL by typing   git config --get remote origin url   Or just go to the repository page on Github and get the new URL  Then use  git remote set-url origin https    new url with username replaced    to update the URL with your new username

User · Answer

In your terminal  navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in  Execute git config --list to check current username  amp  email in your local repo  Change username  amp  email as desired  Make it a global change or specific to the local repo   git config  --global  user name  Full Name  git config  --global  user email  email address com  Per repo basis you could also edit  git config manually instead  Done     When performing step 2 if you see credential helper manager you need to open the credential manager of your computer  Win or Mac  and update the credentials there  Here is how it look on windows   Troubleshooting  Learn more

User · Answer

I recommend you to do this by simply go to your  git folder  then open config file  In the file paste your user info    user      name   Your-Name     email   Your-email   This should be it

User · Answer

usually the user name resides under git config  git config --global user name  first last    although if you still see above doesn t work you could edit  gitconfig under your user directory of mac and update    user          name   gitusername         email   xyz xyz com

User · Answer

Please update new user repository URL   git remote set-url origin https   username bitbucket org repository git   I tried using below commands  it s not working   git config user email  email example com  git config user name   user    OR  git config --global user email  email example com  git config --global user name  user

User · Answer

If you have created a new Github account and you want to push commits with your new account instead of your previous account then the  gitconfig must be updated  otherwise  you will push with the already owned Github account to the new account  In order to fix this  you have to navigate to your home directory and open the  gitconfig with an editor  The editor can be vim  notepad    or even notepad  Once you have the  gitconfig open  just modify the  quot name quot  with your new Github account username that you want to push with

User · Answer

From your terminal do   git config credential username  prefered username    OR  git config --global user name  Firstname Lastname

User · Answer

EDIT  In addition to changing your name and email You may also need to change your credentials    To change locally for just one repository  enter in terminal  from within the repository git config credential username  quot new username quot    To change globally use git config --global credential username  quot new username quot    EDIT EXPLAINED  If you don t change also the user email and user name  you will be able to push your changes  but they will be registered in git under the previous user     Next time you push  you will be asked to enter your password Password for  https    lt new username gt  github com

User · Answer

In your terminal  navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in  Execute git config --list to check current username  amp  email in your local repo  Change username  amp  email as desired  Make it a global change or specific to the local repo   git config  --global  user name  quot Full Name quot  git config  --global  user email  quot email address com quot  Per repo basis you could also edit  git config manually instead   Done   When performing step 2 if you see credential helper manager you need to open the credential manager of your computer  Win or Mac  and update the credentials there

User · Answer

There is a easy solution for that problem  the solution is removed the certificate the yours Keychain   the previous thing will cause that it asks again to the user and password   Steps    Open keychain access      Search the certificate gitHub com  Remove gitHub com certificate  Execute any operation with git in your terminal  this again ask your username and password    For Windows Users find the key chain by following       Control Panel    User Account    Credential Manager    Windows   Credential    Generic Credential

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