Git commit related issue - Commit currently takes login credentials of another user having similar priveleges

I've been made the collaborator(say, i'm User 1) of a git repository. Currently due to some settings which I must have wrongly done unknowingly, all commits are being committed as if being done by the owner(another user - say user 2) who has shared the access with me.

I guess while doing a git clone of the rep. I had done something wrong.

How can I get myself as the owner of each commit?

What do I need to change?. I'm just currently aware of a .git/config file .

What precautions do I need to take to avoid this in the future.开发者_运维问答

Thank you very much..

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You need to configure your:

• user.name
• user.email
• github.user
• github.token

in order to be able to push directly your commits to the repo where you are now a collaborator. See GitHub help.
The email must be the one used with your GitHub account.

You could also, through a filter-branch, reset the author name and email of your previous commits, and force a push (but that will rewrite history, so you need to make sure that won't bother anyone else who would have already clone the repo).

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Check that the .git/config file doesn't contain the other person's username and email address. If it does, remove them.

This should generally be set globally in each user's own ~/.gitconfig file; you can do it like this:

$ git config --global user.name  "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "your@email.address"