The original poster asks: What is the difference between the two (Committer vs author)? The author is the person who originally wrote the code. The committer, on the other hand, is assumed to be the person who committed the code on behalf of the original author. This is important in Git because Git allows you … Read more
From a blog I found: This [git-credential-cache] doesn’t work for Windows systems as git-credential-cache communicates through a Unix socket. Git for Windows Since msysgit has been superseded by Git for Windows, using Git for Windows is now the easiest option. Some versions of the Git for Windows installer (e.g. 2.7.4) have a checkbox during the … Read more
In your terminal, navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in. Execute git config –list to check current username & email in your local repo. Change username & 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 … Read more
There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system. project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project’s directory. global: Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in ~/.gitconfig. system: System configs are available for all the users/projects and … Read more
You can configure an individual repo to use a specific user / email address which overrides the global configuration. From the root of the repo, run git config user.name “Your Name Here” git config user.email your@email.com whereas the default user / email is configured in your ~/.gitconfig git config –global user.name “Your Name Here” git … Read more
As long as you’re just renaming a file, and not a folder, you can just use git mv: git mv -f yOuRfIlEnAmE yourfilename (As of a change in Git 2.0.1, the -f flag in the incantation above is superfluous, but it was needed in older Git versions.)
Since Git 1.7.9 (released 2012), there is a neat mechanism in Git to avoid having to type your password all the time for HTTP / HTTPS, called credential helpers. You can just use one of the following credential helpers: git config –global credential.helper cache The credential.helper cache value tells Git to keep your password cached … Read more
Attention: This method saves the credentials in plaintext on your PC’s disk. Everyone on your computer can access it, e.g. malicious NPM modules. Run git config –global credential.helper store then git pull provide a username and password and those details will then be remembered later. The credentials are stored in a file on the disk, … Read more