---
name: "git-whoami"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "git-stuff"
version: "11-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/git-whoami"
---

# git-whoami(1)

tell about author and committer information

## NAME

**git-whoami** - tell about author and committer information

## SYNOPSIS

**git-whoami**

## DESCRIPTION

**git-whoami** is a program that tells what author and committer information would (probably) be used for a commit.

This is particularly helpful when operating many different Git repositories with different identities (work, private, different projects). **git-whoami** is inspired by 'bzr whoami'.

## OPTIONS

git-whoami has no options.

## SEE ALSO

[*git*(1)](/git/1.md)

[*git-stuff*(7)](/git-stuff/7.md)

This program is a part of git-stuff.

## BUGS

Bugs can be reported by submitting a bugreport for the git-stuff package in the Debian Bug Tracking System at \<*http://bugs.debian.org/*\> or by writing a mail to the author.

## AUTHOR

git-stuff was written by Daniel Baumann \<*daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net*\>, git-whoami was written by Peter Eisentraut \<*peter@eisentraut.org*\>.