Why my git continues to push wrong user after setting email and username

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I have one machine for now that I have to use for both work and personal. Not ideal but works for now. I have created 2 separate ssh keys and have only added my personal key to my personal github. When I start a project I used this to set my creds for the folder:

killall ssh-agent && ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_jaysnel && git config user.name "myUsername" && git config user.email "myEmail"

Yet somehow my work profiles shows as the one who did the commit. Is there a way to just blacklist my work profile from any commits at all to my account?

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-06 07:11:00Z

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SSH keys or HTTPS URL should not have any bearing on commit authorship.

If you have set the user.name/email, make a commit locally, and check you see the right author and committer name and email (the email is importnant) with:

git log --pretty=format:"author: %an %ae / committer: %cn %ce" -1

Once you do, you can push those commits and the right profile will be associated to them on GitHub.

answered Dec 6, 2022 at 7:11

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