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# Issue with Hobby Plan Deployment - Commit Author Mismatch

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Adjey6 (@adjey6) · 2026-02-17

I am experiencing a deployment issue on my Hobby plan. I receive a message stating that the commit author is not the owner, even though I am the sole contributor and owner of the project.
I have already verified the following:
GitHub Connection: My GitHub account is correctly linked to my Vercel account in Settings.
Email Consistency: My local git config user.email matches the email address on my Vercel account.
Ownership: I am the owner of the private repository and the only one committing.
Despite these being correctly configured, Vercel is failing to verify my identity for the private repo deployments.
Project Details:
Repository: ados


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-02-18

Hey, @adjey6! Welcome to the Vercel Community :waving_hand: 

This has come up before in the community, what you need to do is:

Check your Git configuration matches exactly whats in GitHub:

`git config --global user.email > git config --global user.name `

- The email must match an email address associated with your GitHub account (not just your Vercel email)
- If you have multiple GitHub accounts, ensure you're committing with the same one linked to Vercel

Let us know how that works for you!


Adjey6 (@adjey6) · 2026-02-19

Hi @pawlean , thanks for your answer!

I have already check it and it matches, as it is my main gmail account.

Is there something else?


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-04-10

Are you still seeing this?