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Prabhakar Undurthi
4,846 PointsRails Installation problem
Hi, there ! When am running my rails installation , It is is not asking my username, and email address for Git , instead it is showing my name, and email which I actually don't want to use. what should I do.?
I want to use another email , and name for my git?
3 Answers
tetay liu
Courses Plus Student 5,975 Pointsyou can type the $ git config --global -e
and you will see
[user]
name = XXXX
email = XXXX@gmail.com
you can change your name and email
Prabhakar Undurthi
4,846 PointsThank you. Let me know , Can I use two different names on my local and global git .I mean on my terminal during the rails installation , and Github.com
Let me explain my problem very briefly.
this is the name I has used on my local git during the rails installation.
git name: prabhakar git-email: undurthi.prabhakar@gmail.com
on my github accout ,www.github.com
git-name:PrabhakarUndurthi git-email: same as local
Is that okay? OR Do I have to change my name , As you have suggested ?
Please kindly help me.
Thanks in advance.
tetay liu
Courses Plus Student 5,975 Pointsyou want use a name " prabhakar" on your local and another name "PrabhakarUndurthi" on github ,right? It's ok ! And I google a website [http://goo.gl/PsMBNy] maybe can help you
Prabhakar Undurthi
4,846 PointsThank you .
tetay liu
Courses Plus Student 5,975 Pointstest