Why does Azure Repos sometimes shows my check-in(s) as Author = '--get.all'?

Question

Azure sometimes shows my check-in(s) as Author = '--get.all' as apposed to my name.

From Visual Studio > make changes to a branch > commit changes > Open VS's Git Repo > sync button (pull & push). Then I got to Azure URL > browse changes where I just commited. In some cases my name shows as Author. In some cases '--get.all' shows as author.

Answer 1

Probably a messed up git config file in either a repo or your user profile. Try running get config --list to see where the username has been defined. You may have to search your hard drive in case you have more than 1 git installation, since each has its own system level config.

If you have multiple local clones of the same repo, then the value may also be stored in a specific repos local config.

You're seeing:

>get config --list
user.name=--get.all

That's causing your name to be not what you want. You can unset it with git config --unset-all user.name and then set it again git config --add user.name="Bill XXX" --global.

git config --unset-all user.name
git config --add user.name="Bill XXX" --global