How do I change the default author and committer in the Eclipse Git plugin?

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Dmytro Danylyk picture Dmytro Danylyk · May 19, 2012 · Viewed 84.6k times · Source

I am using the Git plugin for Eclipse. I have several authors and committers which are displayed when I start typing in those fields.

How can I provide changes to this list, or remove some author or committer?

Also I want to set my default author and committer which will be displayed by default.

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Answer

Guillermo Garcia picture Guillermo Garcia · Jul 24, 2014
  1. Click Window > Preferences > Team > Git > Configuration

  2. Click Add Entry and enter the key value pairs:

    • Key: user.name

    • Value: YourUsernameHere

      And

    • Key: user.email
    • Value: YourEmailHere

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