Change email address in Git
According to the git documentation, all you should have to do is re-run
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email [email protected]
Then just check to make sure the change took effect
$ git config --list
This is listed in the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub
1.6 Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup
To set your global username/email configuration:
Open the command line.
Set your username:
git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
Set your email address:
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
To set repository-specific username/email configuration:
From the command line, change into the repository directory.
Set your username:
git config user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
Set your email address:
git config user.email "[email protected]"
Verify your configuration by displaying your configuration file:
cat .gitconfig
For more information and for other version control systems .. => SeeThis
use
"git -c user.name="your name" -c [email protected] commit --amend --reset-author"
Locally set email-address (separately for each repository)
Open Git Bash.
Change the current working directory to the local repository in which you want to set your Git config email.
Set your email address with the following command:
git config user.email "[email protected]"
- Confirm that you have set your email address correctly with the following command.
git config user.email
Globally set email-address (only used when nothing is set locally)
Open Git Bash.
Set your email address with the following command:
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
- Confirm that you have set your email address:
git config --global user.email
Or using environment variables
PD: Info from GitHub official guide