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Git does not recognize my global user.email inside RStudio

I am trying to commit my script changes inside RStudio, but I always get an error about not having a git account to refer to.

I have already tried to run in RStudio's Terminal:

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

Then I confirm that my account is correctly recognized:

$ git config --global --list
user.email=my@email.com

I also refreshed the Git tab, and reopened the commit window, to no avail.

I checked Tools --> Version Control --> Project Setup..., which show my project URL correctly.

I expected to be solved after my e-mail being shown by the Terminal, but that's not the case.

Solution

  • Apparently, the solution was to sign in with my user.name instead of my user.email:

    git config --global user.name "Your Name"

    Indeed, I already put that line in my question, but I had only tried the user.email one (I thought they would be interchangeable).