Execute git config --list to check current username & email in your local repo. I have already done. Make it a global change or specific to the local repo: 3. Select the option ‘Username with password’. git config --global user.name myusername. To change our username, follow these steps. Every time I push or pull I have to provide user and password credentials. The first change that we will be making inside our config file will be changing our username in Git. (That is, once I enter my credentials the push/pull works correctly.) In ID text box write jenkins ID credential. Click on dropdown button labelled as ‘Kind’. git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git or. Password for 'https://myusername@github.com': I want the username to be written automatically instead of manually having to type it all the time. Worktree overrides local, local overrides global and globel overrides system. 4. 2. Git does not automatically remember username and password, when the repository is using Windows Credentials for some reason. git config --global user.name myusername git config --global user.email myemail@gmail.com SSH Username with private key; Secret file; Secret text; Certificate; Username – Specify the username that will be used to connect to the remote git repository; Password – Specify the password for the above username. Set user’s UserName in Git Config. ; Change username & email as desired. ID – Leave this empty. You can find all this information on help.github. In Username text box give git username. I tried doing it with xdotool but it didn't work out. git config --global credential.helper cache This command prevent git to ask username and password, not forever but with a default limit to 15 minutes. git config --global user.email myemail Username and password (This is shown in the above screenshot). Select either ‘Global’ or ‘System’. I have entered. Open Git Bash in your system. Git-credential then takes over, and writes to stdout with the bits of information it found. In your terminal, navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in. $ git config --local user.email "[email protected]" Set Global Configuration. Click on dropdown button labelled as ‘Scope’. Alternatively If the username is already added and the above approach is not working, or not available to you, you can use the “run command” and open the key manager this way. By default is there is no explicit level specification the global level will be set. To change this limit you can run: git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600' This move the default limit to 1 hours. 1. If credentials are not found, Git asks the user for the username and password, and provides them back to the invoking stdout (here they’re attached to the same console). 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