title: Name and email set in Git's per-user configuration file, however Git is still using the default generated name and email. What else should I look at
body: <p>When I commit with git, I cannot get rid of the warning : </p>
  
  <pre><code> Committer: Dominic Mayers &lt;dominic@tmorg.ca&gt;
  Your name and email address were configured automatically based
  on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
  You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:
  
      git config --global user.name "Your Name"
      git config --global user.email you@example.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I change my email to dominic@tmorg.ca, it does not help.  Perhaps the answer is as simple as the one provided there <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29980827/name-and-email-set-in-gits-per-user-configuration-file-however-git-is-still-us">Name and email set in Git&#39;s per-user configuration file, however Git is still using the default generated name and email</a>. It must be that I also made a stupid mistake, but I cannot see it. Here is the output of <code>$ git config --global --list</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>user.mail=admin@tmorg.ca
  user.name=Dominic Mayers
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note addded: The stupid mistake is that I used <code>mail</code> instead of <code>email</code> . </p>
  
  <p>The content of  <code>.git/config</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>[core]
          repositoryformatversion = 0
          filemode = true
          bare = false
          logallrefupdates = true
  [remote "donation"]
          url = dominic@192.155.90.64:/var/www/donation.git
          fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/donation/*
  [user]
          mail = admin@tmorg.ca
          name = Dominic Mayers
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output of <code>ls -la .git</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>drwxrwxr-x  2 dominic git                  4096 Dec 17 15:04 branches
  -rw-rw-r--  1 dominic dominic               279 Dec 17 18:07 COMMIT_EDITMSG
  -rw-rw-r--  1 dominic dominic               263 Dec 17 17:41 config
  -rw-rw-r--  1 dominic git                    73 Dec 17 15:19 description
  -rw-r--r--  1 dominic git                    93 Dec 17 15:36 FETCH_HEAD
  -rw-rw-r--  1 dominic git                    23 Dec 17 15:19 HEAD
  drwxrwxr-x  2 dominic git                  4096 Dec 17 15:04 hooks
  -rw-rw-r--  1 dominic dominic             16080 Dec 17 17:43 index
  drwxrwxr-x  2 dominic git                  4096 Dec 17 15:04 info
  drwxr-xr-x  3 dominic git                  4096 Dec 17 15:19 logs
  drwxrwxr-x 28 dominic git                  4096 Dec 17 18:07 objects
  -rw-rw-r--  1 dominic dominic                41 Dec 17 15:36 ORIG_HEAD
  drwxrwxr-x  5 dominic git                  4096 Dec 17 15:19 refs
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What else should I look at?</p>