Git cli: get user info from username

Question

Is there a way to get the name of the user, given only their username?

Something like this output git show (I know this doesn\'t work)<

Answer 1

Try this

git config user.name

git config command stores and gives all the information.

git config -l

This commands gives you all the required info that you want.

You can change the information using

git config --global user.name "<Your-name>"

Similarly you can change many info shown to you using -l option.

Answer 2

While its true that git commits don't have a specific field called "username", a git repo does have users, and the users do have names. ;) If what you want is the github username, then knittl's answer is right. But since your question asked about git cli and not github, here's how you get a git user's email address using the command line:

To see a list of all users in a git repo using the git cli:

git log --format="%an %ae" | sort | uniq

To search for a specific user by name, e.g., "John":

git log --format="%an %ae" | sort | uniq | grep -i john

Answer 3

Use this to see the logged in user (the actual git account):

git config credential.username

And as other answers the user email and user name (this is differenct from user credentials):

git config user.name
git config user.email

To see the list of all configs:

git config --list

Answer 4

You can try this to get infos like:

• username: git config --get user.name
• user email: git config --get user.email

There's nothing like "first name" and "last name" for the user.

Hope this will help.

Answer 5

git config --list

git config -l

will display your username and email together, along with other info

Answer 6

git config user.name
git config user.email

I believe these are the commands you are looking for.

Here is where I found them: http://alvinalexander.com/git/git-show-change-username-email-address