'How to delete a git configuration?

Basically, I entered:

git config --global use.name "My name"

Notice I wrote "use.name" instead of "user.name." But now that field is there, so I was wondering how to delete it.

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Solution 1:^[1]

You can remove it by using the --unset option of git config:

git config --global --unset use.name

See the documentation for more details.

Solution 2:^[2]

git config --global --unset use.name

or you can edit config by --edit

git config --global --edit

Solution 3:^[3]

Remove the section by

git config --global --remove-section use

and then

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Solution 4:^[4]

The config is stored in home directory. Try editing ~/.gitconfig

You will see something like:

[use]
        name = My name

You can change it to

[user]
        name = My name

Or you can execute the same command with correction.

Solution 5:^[5]

I had multiple git accounts on my machine and only thing that worked was

git config --local --unset credential.helper
git config --global --unset credential.helper
git config --system --unset credential.helper

git config --local --unset user.name
git config --global --unset user.name
git config --system --unset user.name

git config --local --unset user.email
git config --global --unset user.email
git config --system --unset user.email

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Solution 5	Rohit

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