Change Git commiter in Netbeans

Question

In Netbeans 7.1 Git support has been added, however, I don\'t see a way to change commiter information. Currently, it\'s defaulting to my system information which is not what I

Answer 1

You can just edit the default text in the combo boxes and NetBeans will remember it for next time. The data is saved in a git.properties file, for example: C:\Users\USERNAME\.netbeans\7.1.2\config\Preferences\org\netbeans\modules\git.properties).

EDIT:

As per the below comment, it seems that the config file's location changed in NetBeans 8 (I don't use NetBeans for a long time already).

Here's an alternative location according to @tzi: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Netbeans\8.0.1\config\Preferences\org\netbean‌​s\modules\git.properties