Change git username and email on your machine (Global and Locally)

You can view your current username and email address using git config

git config --list

You can change your git username using git config –set

git config --global user.name Matthew

You can change your name just for one repository you are in by omitting the –global tag

git config user.name Mark

You can edit the global config in vim/nano using -e tag

git config --global -e

You can edit the local repo config in vim/nano using -e tag

git config -e

This is the same as editing ~/.gitconfig

vi ~/.gitconfig