windows - Git: Please tell me who you are

Question

I opened my repository in the Git Gui for Windows, and pressed commit. I got

Unable to obtain your identity:

Please tell me who you are [...] fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'foo@int123123.(none)')

where I anonymized the email address.

However, I had already set up the email address globally using the git console (for windows). To check, I directed myself into the repository folder and entered

git config --list

and the output was

user.name=myName
user.mail=myMail

again anonymized, where myMail strictly is not foo@int123123. What am I to do?

Answer 1

In git console make the following changes,

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"

$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

Now, try commit!