If you haven’t set the Git variable github.user yet when making a
request, then you will be asked:
Git variable `github.user' is unset. Set to:
You are expected to provide your Github username here. The provided
value will be saved globally (using git config --global github.user
USERNAME).
If you need to identify as another user in a particular repository, then you have to set that variable locally, before making a request:
cd /path/to/repo git config github.user USERNAME
For Github Enterprise instances you have to specify where the API can
be accessed before you try to access it and a different variable has
to be used to set the username. For example if the API is available
at https://example.com/api/v3, then you should do this:
# Do this once git config --global github.example.com/api/v3.user EMPLOYEE # Do this for every corporate repository cd /path/to/repo git config github.host example.com/api/v3
If you do not set github.example.com/api/v3.user, then you will be
asked to provide the value when trying to make a request, but you do
have to manually set github.host, or Ghub assumes that you are trying
to access api.github.com.