user.name and user.email

Learn to set the name and email for commit authorship.

Commit author and identity

When developing a project with Git, every change must have an owner. Git records this information as the author and displays it in the change history.

git config user.name "Ahmet Yılmaz"

To set the author name, you assign your full name in double quotes to the user.name key.

user.email and quotes

To complete the author identity, you must define an email address alongside the name. Double quotes are required if the value contains spaces, and are good practice even without spaces.

git config user.email "ahmet@example.com"

This ensures Git associates every action you take with this name and email.

Exercise Define an email address

Set the user.email setting to "ayse@example.com" and then print it with git config user.email.

Show example solution

git config user.email "ayse@example.com"
git config user.email

Test yourself

Which command is used to set the commit author's email address in Git?
- git config set user.email "example@mail.com"
- git config user.email "example@mail.com"
- git config email "example@mail.com"
- git config author.email "example@mail.com"
Show answer

git config user.email "example@mail.com" — In Git, the email address is configured via the `user.email` key.

Set email address

git config ____ "zeynep@example.com"

Show answer

git config user.email "zeynep@example.com"

Author configuration

user.name

Author's display name
user.email

Author's email address
Author

Person making the change
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