How to connect commits from Terminal on Mac with activity log on Github page?

Question

I created a repo on GitHub and used Terminal on Mac to commit and push a project. Everything works fine, but on my GitHub page it seems like commits were made not from my github account but some guest account (I assume it used my Mac os name but I could be wrong). Consequently my activity log on GitHub page does not register any commits that I make. How can I fix it?

Answer 1

you need to add your user name and email to global configs of git locally for your user name to be associated with commits.

you can do it as follows:

git config --global user.name "example-user-name"
git config --global user.email "example@user.com"

after setting your user name to global configs, make some minor changes to code, maybe add a space and try committing and pushing. your username should appear :)