Question

I have set up my name and email as follows

git config --global user.name myname

However, when I run git log after commit, it shows unknown instead of myname:

Author: unknown <[e-mail]>

What should I do to have my name listed by log command?

Edit: the output of config -l is as follows:

core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=false
color.diff=auto
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=true
pack.packsizelimit=2g
help.format=html
http.sslcainfo=/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
sendemail.smtpserver=/bin/msmtp.exe
diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
rebase.autosquash=true
gui.recentrepo=C:/Git/MyProject
core.editor='C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin
core.autocrlf=false
user.name=myalias
user.email=[e-mail]
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=false
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
core.symlinks=false
core.ignorecase=true
core.hidedotfiles=dotGitOnly
remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
remote.origin.url=git@git:myproject.git
branch.master.remote=origin
branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master

Edit: started a bounty.

Edit 2: In fact, git commit from command line was including my name, but TortoiseGit failed to do so. So this is a problem with TortoiseGit.

Answer 1

Create an empty dir with no parent being a git-repository and cd there. Execute the following commands.

git init .
touch foo
git add foo
git commit -m "initial"
git log
git config -l

Please provide the output of git log and git config -l of these two calls.