How to fix multiple values error in git while configuring the name?-CodePudding

$ git config --global user.name "Amritjyot Singh"
warning: user.name has multiple values
error: cannot overwrite multiple values with a single value
       Use a regexp, --add or --replace-all to change user.name.

How to use regexp to fix this problem?

I tried git config --global user.name "Amritjyot Singh" Expected to configure my name in git bash but this error was shown

CodePudding user response：

For some reason, you have multiple user.name configuration keys. Remove them all with:

git config --global --unset-all user.name

Then set it again:

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

CodePudding user response：

To see where different values for a config parameter are defined :

$ git config --show-origin --get-all user.name
# sample output:
file:/home/wwhite/.gitconfig   Walter White
file:.git/config  Heisenberg

If you see several values coming from one single file:

file:/home/jack/.gitconfig   Jack
file:/home/jack/.gitconfig   Tyler Durden

you can either

edit the mentioned configuration file with a regular text editor, and delete the erroneous value,
or use :

git config [correct scope] --replace-all user.name "My Name"

where [correct scope] will probably be --global (if source is in $HOME/.gitconfig) or --local (<- same as empty string, if source is .git/config).

CodePudding user response：

Run git config --global -e to edit the global config file. According to the warning and error messages, there are multiple values like this

[user]
    name = foo

Find all of them, keep one and remove the others.