Eclipse Kepler: Change default account to use when committing with egit?

Question

I have two git accounts - one personal and one for work.

Whenever I commit something with egit, the default account used is my work account. I have to make sure every single commit that I change it to my personal one.

However, today I forgot to do so and it commit and pushed to my repository with my work account.

How would I go about changing the default account being used when committing on egit?

Answer 1

You can change this in the Eclipse preferences. Go into the Window tab and at the bottom of the menu list, click Preferences . Then expand Team , followed by Git and finally select Configuration . Once that's done, change user.name to your name and user.email to your email address.

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Just so you know, there are also way more recent versions than Kepler... They also have more features and bug fixes. From most recent to least recent:

1. Neon
2. Mars
3. Luna
4. Kepler

Each version of these can be downloaded on the Eclipse download page (Eclipse IDE for Java Developers), just select the release you would like to obtain.