Question

how to change the github login details on a localhost git bash?

I have configure my GitHub repository with my friend’s github.username and github.token at the time of installation, I want to change from that id to my own id.

How should we do that?

Answer 1

Those two parameters are managed by Git config:

$ git config --global github.user username
$ git config --global github.token 0123456789yourf0123456789token

If you want to change them just for a project, you can remove the --global parameter and repeat that command just in a specific repo.

This help/setup script illustrates the steps necessary for GitHub authentication.

See also “How to setup Git Bash (msysgit) with a github token or ssh key“.