user.adoc

user.name

user.email

author.name

author.email

committer.name

committer.email

The user.name and user.email variables determine what ends up in the author and committer fields of commit objects. If you need the author or committer to be different, the author.name, author.email, committer.name, or committer.email variables can be set. All of these can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and EMAIL environment variables.

Note that the name forms of these variables conventionally refer to some form of a personal name. See linkgit:git-commit[1] and the environment variables section of linkgit:git[1] for more information on these settings and the credential.username option if you’re looking for authentication credentials instead.

user.useConfigOnly

Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for user.email and user.name, and instead retrieve the values only from the configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses and would like to use a different one for each repository, then with this configuration option set to true in the global config along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before making new commits in a newly cloned repository. Defaults to false.

user.signingKey

If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or commit, you can override the default selection with this variable. This option is passed unchanged to gpg’s --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports. If gpg.format is set to ssh this can contain the path to either your private ssh key or the public key when ssh-agent is used. Alternatively it can contain a public key prefixed with key:: directly (e.g.: "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier"). The private key needs to be available via ssh-agent. If not set Git will call gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand (e.g.: "ssh-add -L") and try to use the first key available. For backward compatibility, a raw key which begins with "ssh-", such as "ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier", is treated as "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier", but this form is deprecated; use the key:: form instead.