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gotqn
Asked: 2012-10-26 12:15:19 +0800 CST

git config global file - remove settings

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The following command:

$git config --global --list

gives me:

user.name=test user
user.name=gotqn

I want to remove the first name. I referred to this article and have done the following commands but without any result:

git config --global --remove-section user.name='test user'
git config --global --remove-section user.name="test user"
git config --global --remove-section user.name=test user
git config --global --remove-section user.name
git config --global --remove-section test user

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and 

git version

gives me 

git version 1.7.9.5

Please, help on this, because I want to try to save my project using git, but do not want to exec the command with 'test user' name.

git

8 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can edit the ~/.gitconfig file in your home folder. This is where all --global settings are saved.

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  2. Super late answer, but hopefully still helpful:

    git config --global --unset-all user.name

    Then you're free to:

    git config --global --add user.name <whatever>
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  3. git config --global --unset-all user.name

    Or you can just change the user name like this:

    git config --global --replace-all user.name "New User Name"
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  4. git config --global -e

    This command will open GNU nano editor with what you are expecting.

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  5. Last but not least usefull, although it's a marginal case is to use 

    git config --global --remove-section user

    In my case it cleared the data perfectly and with little to no effort

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  6. git config user.name 'your user name'
git config user.email 'your email name'

    you can config for your every company project。And global's user name set your private github name and email.I thought this should be the best way for handle this condition.

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  7. You can edit your .git/config file present in the local repository repo manually as below:

    [core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
        ignorecase = true
        precomposeunicode = true
[user]
        email = <username>@gmail.com
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://github.com/<username>/<repo_name>.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[credential]
        username = <user_name>
[credential "user"]
        email = <username>@gmail.com
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master
"config" 19L, 427C

    Now try in terminal:

    git push -origin master

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  8. I was having trouble trying to clear out double entries for core.editor... I'd run

    git config --unset-all core.editor

    then

    git config --list

    and see no changes.

    The answer was to run:

    git config --global --unset-all core.editor

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