Question

This question seems like a duplicate but it’s really not. Just a slight difference that keeps on repeating. git keeps on telling me: “please tell me who you are”, even after setting it up. when I run git commit, this is what I get….

$ git commit

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

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

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'Obby@ObbyWorkstation.(none)')

But when I run git config --global -l, it gives me all my details…

$ git config --global -l
user.name=myname
user.mail=[e-mail]
http.proxy=proxy.XX.XX.XX:XXXX

I have changed my name, email and proxy but they are appearing fine when I run the command, even in the .gitconfig file I can see the values are set. what could be the missing thing, because I cannot commit at all. Every time it keeps asking me who I am ?

@sheu told me something that i changed, but still the same problem. when i set --local, still git commit asks me the same question. this is the output

$ git config --local -l
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=false
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
core.symlinks=false
core.ignorecase=true
core.hidedotfiles=dotGitOnly
user.name=myname
user.mail=[e-mail]

Answer 1

That’s a typo. You’ve accidently set user.mail with no e in email. Fix it by setting user.email in the global configuration with

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