my old username is still in use

Question

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\"

Answer 1

Locally:

git config credential.username "new_username"

Globally:

git config --global credential.username  "new_username"

Answer 2

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:

1. You are using %HOME%/.netrc (%HOME%/_netrc or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\_netrc on Windows)
2. 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
3. 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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