Git uses unexpected user when I commit from PhpStorm

Question

I recently share my laravel project on github using PhpStorm. I afraid why PhpStorm is using hackerrank as git user on my project?

hackerrank Removed h3 commented code.

This is the recently commit I have pasted above. All commits are with the hackerrank user.

Repository is private so I can't share.

Do you see this used when you do `git config --get-all user.name` ? — kostix, Oct 15 '18 at 16:38
Yes I saw this, but don't know why it is set automatically. I have only 2 commits. — Asif Mushtaq, Oct 15 '18 at 16:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '18 at 16:55

I would roll like this:

Change user name and e-mail.

Supposedly you want to do this locally in your Laravel project.

cd to that project's directory and run
```
$ git config --local user.name Asif
$ git config --local user.email asif@example.com
```

Re-write your commits in order to update their metadata:

$ git filter-branch --env-filter '
    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Asif
    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=asif@example.com
    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
   ' -- --all

(See git help filter-branch for more info.)

Force-push the updated history to Github.

Note that merely running git commit --amend as suggested elsewhere is not going to work for two reasons:

It does not change the author's parameters — unless the --reset-author command-line option was supplied.
It does nothing to commits down the history chain.

I'm not asking the solution, I want to know why it is happen? why that name is assigned? — Asif Mushtaq, Oct 15 '18 at 18:27

Ulysse BN · Answer 2 · 2018-10-15T17:26:56.897

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You can set your user with:

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email me@me.com

And then amend your commit with reset-author (thanks to kostix' comment)

git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author

This will set your user correctly for the last commit.

For a specific commit/author, you should take a look at this answer.

edited Oct 15 '18 at 17:26

answered Oct 15 '18 at 16:43

Ulysse BN

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I believe the question is not how to change the name, but what could have set it to "hackerrank" – lucidbrot Oct 15 '18 at 16:45
Oh thanks. I'll let my answer for the time op can see it, and delete it afterward if he doesn't say anything. – Ulysse BN Oct 15 '18 at 16:46
@lucidbrot, if so, I'd be tempted to remove the `git` tag as Git won't change anything related to _this_ bit of configuration under no known circumstances. Otherwise, the question may also ask how to "undo" this feat of whatever piece of software did it (I suppose it's PhpStorm). – kostix Oct 15 '18 at 16:57
Please note that w/o the `--reset-author` command-line option, the author of the rebased commit won't be changed. – kostix Oct 15 '18 at 16:58
@kostix I am obviously not sure how it was meant. But the git tag might be justified if e.g. the user setting can be changed by adding a config file to the index – lucidbrot Oct 15 '18 at 17:07
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@lucidbrot, see, if we were to nitpick, the question does not even contain any question. I reckon, English is supposedly not the author's native language, so we sorta should guess a little bit. That what I did. – kostix Oct 15 '18 at 17:16
Sorry both of you about my English. I want to know that who did this? and how to stop in the future projects? – Asif Mushtaq Oct 15 '18 at 18:29
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Clearly, the name `hakerrank` is unlikely to be assigned automatically by any kind of software I can think of. I'd hence start working from there. Supposedly you did something related to that site's tasks, right? – kostix Oct 15 '18 at 18:54
Oh I got it. I took a test on hakerrank a long ago in which one step was about to commits using their details. Thanks. – Asif Mushtaq Oct 18 '18 at 08:06

Git uses unexpected user when I commit from PhpStorm

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