Xcode 7 Git Setup Fail: unable to auto-detect email address

Question

When enabling Git Repository Source Control for a new project on Xcode 7, it shows:

However, even after I setup user.name and user.email in terminal:

git config --global  user.name "John"
git config --global  user.email "[email protected]"

I checked and see from Terminal using

 git config --global -l

The result shows:

I also checked local config in the project folder using:

 git config --local -l

user.name and user.email were not set locally.

But I still cannot commit and the same message from Xcode pop up. Any ideas what's going wrong? Please help!

Answer 1

Found the solution:

1. Go to project folder, look for ./git directory
2. Open the file "config" with TextEditor.
3. Terminal git config command seems not applied to this config file correctly.It was like this:
4. I changed it to and saved.
5. Commit and everything works!

Side Note: about how to find the hidden .git in project directory. Xcode 5 - remove source control for project Show hidden file in Mac