First Pass, unedited. If anyone besides myself ends up reading this please leave a comment and I will apply some polish.
Even with the SSH configuratoin stuff below setup correctly you still need to put your identity into each project-level
.git/config file and not rely on ~/.gitconfig. While obvious in hind-sight... The UI doesn't have an independment notion
of identity and because you are working on a local clone does not use identity information associated with origin. This
too makes sense as you are able to have multiple remotes associated with a given local repository. If you forget and notice a
commit with bad author information you can use git commit --amend --reset-author - though it may be that a normal ammend with
do this too...after you have added the [user] name & email variables to config.
C:/Users//.ssh/config - don't bother adding a config here...the one in /etc/ssh/ssh_config asserts host configuration precedence.