How to fix the error cause the gitHub repository to display the commit name differently as the name of the account?.

Question

What cause the differences as shown in the image and how to fix it?

Answer 1

@Renatus Bashishwa

For anyone facing this issue please first check if you have a typo or wrong or a different email address configured in your local git (step 1 below). If so, then this might solve the issue as it did for my repo once upon a time.

1. To View the Current Name and Email:

git config --global user.name

git config --global user.email

2. To Update Correctly:

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

git config --global user.email "Your Correct Email Here"

3. Also repeat 1. and 2. without the --global option.
4. Now You Must Reset the Author

git commit --amend --reset-author

5. Finally can do Forced Push

git push -f

6. Verify on GitHub

---

If the answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".

Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

---

Answer 2

The reason why a GitHub repository may display commit names differently than the account name is that Git stores the name and email address of the author in its configuration file, which can be different from the name and email used to sign in to GitHub. This can happen if the author has used different names and email addresses across different commits, or if the author has changed their Git settings over time. To fix this, you can update your Git settings to ensure that the correct name and email address are included in your commits. You can do this using the git config command, either globally for all repositories on your system or locally for a specific repository. You can also update your profile in GitHub to ensure that your name and email address are correct.

---

References:

• How names work in Git
• Git FAQs
• Share your code with Azure Repos and Visual Studio