Error: Similar to -> You can only commit if your email is one of the verified emails In your terminal, navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in. Execute git config --list to check current username & email in your local repo. Check the username -> git config [--global] user.name Check the email -> git config [--global] user.email Change username & email as desired. Make it a global change or specific to the local repo: git config [--global] user.name "Full Name" git config [--global] user.email "email@address.com" git config [--global] user.password "your password" Per repo basis you could also edit .git/config manually instead. Done! Then execute -> git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit