Question

I’ve just started using Github, but all of my commits show up as “blah [name]” where name isn’t my Github username. Also, the latest commit shown at the top left corner says “Oops! This commit is missing author information”.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Check your git config first and see what values are set for user.name and user.email

git config -l

These two need to be the same as your username and email at Github.

To set these values just do the following

git config user.name "John Doe"
git config user.email "[e-mail]"

The commands above set your username and email for that specific repository. If you want to set them globally you can do:

git config --global user.name "Chris"
git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"