I have uploaded my project on github and on the website I have different username and commit name:

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For this post I have changed it to "NAME 1" and "NAME 2" .

Why aren't they same? I think I have changed it in the past ( because NAME 2 is familiar for me: it is my last name )and now I don't know where have I changed it. I want to change it to NAME 1 (to my github username).

I tried to change Git user.email and user.name but these have no affect to NAME 2.

CodePudding user response：

You may check your user name and user email in your local git config:

$ git config --list

If it's different then you can change it for the next commits:

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"  
$ git config --global user.email [email protected]

The other way, you can use a special file in your repo to change a user name and email to something else

Create a file named .mailmap

And add this line:

Name 1 <[email protected]> Name 2 <[email protected]>