Tip of the Day: Set Git Author and Email [Updated]
May 13th, 2008
Quick tip, especially if you use GitHub with Gravatar so a little profile picture will show up on GitHub you likely need to set your Author and Email for Git. So instead of falling back to your system username and machine name for an email address (at least on the Mac), and your account's long name for author name, Git will use the correct information and your gravatar will show up in GitHub (minimally just match your email with your Gravatar account).
Run the following commands:
git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
git config --global user.email ben@domain.com
This will add entries to your ~/.gitconfig file under the [User] section.
Thats it. See me on GitHub here: http://github.com/unilogic
Thanks Tim for the correct way of doing this.
Resource: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git
May 13th, 2008 at 07:51 PM You realise that git-config is there for a reason. http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git has some info about this. You should use --global as mentioned to make sure it is enabled across all your repos. And remember you can then override for a single repo as well!