If you want to change your username or email address in Git you can do it for an individual repository or as default property. One time I had to do as I changed my mail address. Another time I had to do it for a project where I got a mail address from the customer. If you want to do it, open the terminal and set the default name and email by using the following command:
git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email john@doe.tldTo change the properties for a specific repository, you need to go to the working directory of your repository. Then you can change the name and email by using the following command:
git config user.name "Jim Doe"
git config user.email "jim@doe.tld"You can find the name and email properties for the default configuration in the ~/.gitconfig file. The repository properties are stored in the .git/config file. It doesn’t matter which OS do you use. The commands are working for Windows, Mac and Linux.
