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Wrong git email again? Pick the identity from the remote URL

Personal GitHub, work GitHub, GitLab, two Bitbuckets. More than once I committed with the wrong name and email. Sometimes the push was rejected. Sometimes nobody noticed for weeks.

  • Git commits can have incorrect names and email addresses.
  • Remote URL is a more consistent identity identifier.
  • gitpro tool helps manage multiple Git identities.

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