my old username is still in use
git, github
Solution
The `user.name` and `user.email` settings are only used for commit meta data.
As I can see you are using https transport, so the username is stored somehow. To my mind there are two options:
- You are using `%HOME%/.netrc` (`%HOME%/_netrc` or `%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\_netrc` on Windows)
- Your username is included in the push-url (like `https://username@github.com/...`), here you need to update `.git/config`, e.g. by issuing `git remote set-url https://<newusername>@github.com/<newusername>/yourRepo`
- You are using a git credential helper. Here it depends which one you use (and maybe which OS you use, see for Windows, Mac OS X).
As a general rule you can try the following on the CLI (based on 2), where you replace `$credentialhelper` with your credential-helper (you can find it using `git config credential.helper`, for Mac OS X it is likely `osxkeychain` on Windows it might be `wincred` or `manager`):
$ git credential-$credentialhelper erase
host=github.com
protocol=https
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Problem
I have changed my user and email for git with those commands ``` git config --global user.name "maa" git config user.email "maa@gmail.com" ``` I confirmed the change with ``` git config --global user.name git config user.email ``` and it shows the right names. However when I push the old user name is used: ``` git push -u origin master remote: Permission to maa/brain.git denied to old_user_name. fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/maa/brain.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 ```