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In order to commit your changes GIT requires that you set two variables:

  • user.name - Your name i.e. “Joe Blogs”

  • user.email - Your email i.e. mary.Jones@life.com

These can Git requires you give your name and email address to label your commits. Each IguanaX User will need to add their Author Info the first time they login.

Best practice is to pick an email address that your cloud host will recognize if you want to be able to trace your commits in that cloud host. See Git for how to configure your cloud host access in Iguana.

Each user’s Author Info is also what is used to Identify your Iguana so if you have problems we can help you!

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titleIn Settings → Git

Click Edit in Author Info to configure your name and email.

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titleAlternatively, you can also set them with the Git command line

These can also be set at the command line of GIT, like so:

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languagebash
git config --global user.name "
Mary Tyler Moore
John"
git config --global user.email "
mary@moore
ifw.demo@gmail.com"

The GIT setup screen also allows one to set these parameters.

These parameters are different from the credentials required for your cloud host.

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titleThis is stored on a per user basis - so ever user needs to configure their Author Info!

These settings can be found in your User’s ~/.gitconfig file:

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[user]
         name = John
         email = ifw.demo@gmail.com