Git: "please tell me who you are" error

In my case I was missing "e" on the word "email" as Chad stated above but I see its not the case with you. Please hit the following command to see if everything is pulling as expected.

git config -l

It is unable to auto-detect email address.

By default it takes your system username like abc@xyz.none.

So you need to set your email like below:

git config user.email "someone@gmail.com"

After setting email you can run the git commands and commit your changes.

1. git init
2. git add *
3. git commit -m "some init msg"

You must Write Your email like that

 git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

Then: Write Username

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

After That Poupup window will appear

Write USERNAME & EMAIL For Acount YOU want contribute

i use heroku cli 1. must use all user name and user email

$git config --global user.email .login email.

$git config --global user.name .heroku name.

2. git pull [git url]
3. git init

4. git add *

   5 git commit -m "after config user.name ,user email"

5. git push heroku master

I use Jenkins and ran into this problem when trying to perform a release (which requires a git commit). To fix the issues, I needed to add a Custom user name/e-mail address (see picture) This ensured that when the code was checked out it used my build user's name/email address when performing the release. Note, this configuration is available from the Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline project configuration.

git pull should not require this. However if the pull causes a merge conflict, then it seems nessecary.

To Set config for this/current repo only just remove --global and set name/email like this:

$ git config user.name "John Doe" 
$ git config user.email "JohnDoe@gmail.com" 

IMHO, the proper way to resolve this error is to configure your global git config file.

To do that run the following command: git config --global -e

An editor will appear where you can insert your default git configurations.

Here're are a few:

[user]
    name = your_username
    email = your_username@users.noreply.github.com 
[alias]
    # BASIC
    st = status
    ci = commit
    br = branch
    co = checkout
    df = diff

For more details, see Customizing Git - Git Configuration

When you see a command like, git config ...

$ git config --global core.whitespace \
    trailing-space,space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab

... you can put that into your global git config file as:

[core]
   whitespace = space-before-tab,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space

For one off configurations, you can use something like git config --global user.name 'your_username'

If you don't set your git configurations globally, you'll need to do so for each and every git repo you work with locally.

The user.name and user.email settings tell git who you are, so subsequent git commit commands will not complain, *** Please tell me who you are.

Many times, the commands git suggests you run are not what you should run. This time, the suggested commands are not bad:

$ git commit -m 'first commit'

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Tip: Until I got very familiar with git, making a backup of my project file--before running the suggested git commands and exploring things I thought would work--saved my bacon on more than a few occasions.

If you find the old default behavior useful (i.e. make commits with the local username and hostname as the author identification, instead of identifying you the person), you can run:

git config --global user.name "$USER" && git config --global user.email "$USER@$HOSTNAME"

To fix I use: git config --global user.email "you@example.com" and works.

user.mail no work, need to put an E. Typo maybe?