Change email address in Git

Question

I have a project hosted in Git stash (now rebranded as Bitbucket Server). It is built using jenkins. Now I made a typo while installing my Git locally. Like @ab.com instead of @

Answer 1

According to the git documentation, all you should have to do is re-run

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"  
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com  

Then just check to make sure the change took effect

$ git config --list

This is listed in the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

1.6 Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup