"git push" updates remote with global user name evenif local user name is set

Question

I have set the local user config using following command,

git config user.name "Ankur Tank"
git config user.email "ankur.tank@example.com"

git config --global is set for different user.

When I do git push, I see it is being pushed with global user name and email id.

How can I override global username and email? Is it possible ?
For git commit --author < > is possible but git push --author < > not available.

Any suggestions/pointer ?

Edit:
.git/config in my repo shows local user name what i have set. Even when i commit it takes local user name but for git push it take global user name and email.

did you set the local user settings while you are inside the local repo? — Ammadu, Jul 24 '15 at 15:37
@Ammadu : Yes I had set local user setting while I was inside local repo. And then I copied the whole folder to other path and the `.git/config` shows local user name and email. — ART, Jul 24 '15 at 15:43
The local user/email takes higher precedence than global settings. I just checked it in my configuration. It works perfectly fine. Either you are missing something or you are using an ancient version of git. — positron, Jul 24 '15 at 22:36
When you `git log` , which author appears ? You might have committed under your global user and setup the local config after (push is for authentication, not ownership of commit) — topheman, Jul 25 '15 at 00:41
Please see here for the difference between a committer and an author in Git: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18750808/difference-between-author-and-committer-in-git - this might be what you're seeing here. — nwinkler, Jul 25 '15 at 08:34
@positron : my git version is `git version 1.9.1`, I might be missing something but i don't know what. :( — ART, Jul 27 '15 at 12:09
@topheman When I `git log`, I see my name(local user config), But when I do `git push` It pushes with global user name. :( — ART, Jul 27 '15 at 12:10
@nwinkler: But when I `git log` I see local username(local user config), even `git log --pretty='%cn' -n1 HEAD` shows my name i.e. local username. So I assume in my case committer and an author is same, isn't it ? — ART, Jul 27 '15 at 12:16
I think i found the cause, not sure though, I didn't mention but we are using ssh keys. SSH key stored is created for another user..does that create problem? Because temporarily i changed the `git config --global user.name ` and `git config --global user.email ` but still it show previous user while I do `git push origin` Now only difference is key. I will try to change it temporarily and see if that some effect. — ART, Jul 29 '15 at 16:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

After testing trying various combination, finally I found that root cause was ssh key. I followed steps in the another question Best way to use multiple SSH private keys on one client , I followed steps mentioned by Wahib Haq.

Here are steps
1. # ssh-agent bash
2. # ssh-add /path.to/private/key
To list added ssh private key we
3. # ssh-add -l

After that when I do git push it takes local config and update goes in my name.

"git push" updates remote with global user name evenif local user name is set

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