IntelliJ IDEA with Git remember author

Go to your project where git is initialized.

Then enable the hidden folders and find ".git" and go inside the folder.

Find the file called "config" and add below code and save.

[user]
      name = username
      email = [email protected]

Enter your correct username and email accordingly. This will be picked permanently and you do not need to change again.

IntelliJ IDEA doesn't pre-select author in the combobox which is a known cosmetic issue, however it should use the author defined in the git configuration by default.

Please double check that user.name and user.email is specified properly in the global git configuration.

Some users mentioned a problem when using cygwin git, when IDEA probably cannot find the global git config. In this case it may help if you specify the user for the local project configuration:

git config --local user.name "John Doe"
git config --local user.email [email protected]