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Asked: 2026-05-25T11:19:29+00:00

I’m wondering where does git stores user information. I created a repository, which both

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I’m wondering where does git stores user information. I created a repository, which both me and my friend works on. When we both commit, we can see both of us as individual authors for different revisions. while theres a .gitconfig file created using git config --global in his home folder, I couldn’t find one in mine. So where’s my user information stored? Does git config --global only affect the individual login user?

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    If you do not store user information in your configuration files Git looks in the environment for committer information, using the variables GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL. In absence of these variables, your username and host name are used to construct a value. So even without any user information stored in configuration files two users will have different committer information.

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