Git Commit - Author identity unknown, Please tell me who you are email

# git commit -m "Initial commit"

Author identity unknown

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'root@8b4ed5e4957e.(none)')

If you are trying to commit code to your git repository and you get Author identity unknown, then simply follow the two command instructions displayed.

In the terminal run the below command with your email id for git,

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

In the terminal run the below command with your email id for git,

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

Now try to do a commit on your local branch,

% git commit -m "initial commit"
[master (root-commit) 3ebcd44] initial commit
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 MyClass.java