Change email address in Git

I have a project hosted in Git stash (now rebranded as Bitbucket Server). It is built using jenkins. Now I made a typo while installing my Git locally. Like @ab.com instead of @abc.com

After every build, jenkins sends email notifications and it picks up my incorrect email address from Git commit and tries to send it.

Even after I have changed the email address in my local Git, I still see jenkins sending the emails to the old incorrect address.

How can I fix this?

5 Answers

Locally set email-address (separately for each repository)

1. Open Git Bash.

2. Change the current working directory to the local repository in which you want to set your Git config email.

3. Set your email address with the following command:

git config user.email "" 

4. Confirm that you have set your email address correctly with the following command.

git config user.email 

Globally set email-address (only used when nothing is set locally)

1. Open Git Bash.

2. Set your email address with the following command:

git config --global user.email "" 

3. Confirm that you have set your email address:

git config --global user.email 

Or using environment variables

1. GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=
2. GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=

PD: Info from github official guide

According to the git documentation, all you should have to do is re-run

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe" $ git config --global user.email 

Then just check to make sure the change took effect

$ git config --list 

This is listed in the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

1.6 Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup

use

"git -c user.name="your name" -c user.email= commit --amend --reset-author"

To set your global username/email configuration:

1. Open the command line.

2. Set your username:

   git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"

3. Set your email address:

   git config --global user.email ""

To set repository-specific username/email configuration:

1. From the command line, change into the repository directory.

2. Set your username:

   git config user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"

3. Set your email address:

   git config user.email ""

4. Verify your configuration by displaying your configuration file:

   cat .gitconfig

For more information and for other version control systems .. => SeeThis

Edit your email directly in the JENKINS_HOME/users/YOUR_NAME/config.xml configuration file and restart the Jenkins server