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I am using the Git plugin for Eclipse. I have several authors and committers which are displayed when I start typing in those fields.

How can I provide changes to this list, or remove some author or committer?

Also I want to set my default author and committer which will be displayed by default.

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Peter Mortensen
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  1. Click Window > Preferences > Team > Git > Configuration

  2. Click Add Entry and enter the key value pairs:

    • Key: user.name

    • Value: YourUsernameHere

      And

    • Key: user.email
    • Value: YourEmailHere
Sarcares
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Guillermo Garcia
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Each developer should perform:

git config --global user.name "<name of user>"
git config --global user.email "<email of user>"

If you want to change the author of an existing commit, look here

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GoZoner
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Changing Your Committer Name & Email Globally

You can run the "git config" command with the --global flag; this will make sure all of your future commits use the given information:

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email "john@doe.org"

Changing Your Committer Name & Email per Repository

If you want to use special settings only when working in a certain repository, you can simply omit the --global flag. This makes the configuration valid only in that repository:

$ git config user.name "John Doe"
$ git config user.email "john@doe.org"

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GorvGoyl
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    This is a much better answer for those using multiple workspaces and need different Authors/Committers for each workspace instead of a global Eclipse setting. – Etep Mar 07 '18 at 08:54
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    Agree with @Etep. I've configured both global and local accounts. To check if you're using correct repo specific account from within repo, run `cat .git/config` or `git config --local user.name` – rsinha Jun 27 '20 at 08:22
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EGit should ask you the first time you commit something. But you can always change it later on, see here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Identifying_yourself

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In Eclipse v4.4 (Luna) it will work like the below way.

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