How to Check Username and Email Configuration in Git

This article illustrated how we could check our git username and password. We will also discuss the process of configuring these credentials.

Check Username and Email Configuration in Git

Assuming we have already set a username and email, how do we check them? To check the username, run the git config command, and the command will output the configured username.

Command:

$ git config user.name

To check the email, run the command below.

Command:

$ git config user.email

Let’s have the following example. We will run the commands above to check the configured credentials in our Git repository.

The following commands will allow us to configure or change the existing username and email in Git.

To configure the username.

Command:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"

To configure the email.

Command:

$ git config --global user.email "Email"

Let’s have another example where we’ll attempt to change our username and email shown in the image above. The following commands should change our details.

Command:

$ git config --global user.name "John. W"
$ git config --global user.email "wachirajohnie11@gmail.com"

Output: