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Asked: 2026-05-24T11:49:35+00:00

I’ve been made the collaborator(say, i’m User 1) of a git repository. Currently due

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I’ve been made the collaborator(say, i’m User 1) of a git repository. Currently due to some settings which I must have wrongly done unknowingly, all commits are being committed as if being done by the owner(another user – say user 2) who has shared the access with me.

I guess while doing a git clone of the rep. I had done something wrong.

How can I get myself as the owner of each commit?

What do I need to change?. I’m just currently aware of a .git/config file .

What precautions do I need to take to avoid this in the future.

Thank you very much..

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to configure your:

    • user.name
    • user.email
    • github.user
    • github.token

    in order to be able to push directly your commits to the repo where you are now a collaborator. See GitHub help.
    The email must be the one used with your GitHub account.

    You could also, through a filter-branch, reset the author name and email of your previous commits, and force a push (but that will rewrite history, so you need to make sure that won’t bother anyone else who would have already clone the repo).

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