$ 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
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
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).
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" 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.
git configcommand leave?git help <command>, the page linked by jthill isgit help config. These pages are also accessible from the official git site, starting from git-scm.com/docs and searching for target command, or by directly accessinghttps://git-scm.com/docs/git-<command>(again: jthill's link point to that official page). The only thing with the website is : compare your local git version (git version) with the version of the doc you are looking at (the website shows the latest version by default)