How to change my Git username in terminal?

Question

I was pushing and pulling from git in Terminal then I changed my username on github.com. I went to push some changes and it couldn\'t push because it was still recognizing

Answer 1

usually the user name resides under git config

git config --global user.name "first last"

although if you still see above doesn't work you could edit .gitconfig under your user directory of mac and update

[user]
        name = gitusername
        email = xyz@xyz.com