如何设置magit commit author？

Question

i am using magit to do a git push, it fail with below error message: remote: ERROR: committer email address XXXX remote: ERROR: does not match your user account.

so i have to do this commit thru Git, why magit does not work?

Answer 1

"add a HOME enviroment varibales and specify the dir the same with the .gitconfig dir" sovleve this problem.

it is because the magit can not find the .gitconfig file in the HOME dir.

Answer 2

Use the above (or below) answer by @Björn Lindqvist with CAUTION. Do it ONLY if you know what you are going or it might ruin your environmental variables. Just a word of caution.

Answer 3

Add this to .emacs to get it to work:

(when (string-equal system-type "windows-nt")
  (setenv "HOME" (concat (getenv "HOMEDRIVE") (getenv "HOMEPATH"))))

Much later... Don't use this code! It will confuse Emacs and make it unable to locate the correct ~/.emacs file. The only right way is to set the HOME environment variable for the user.