Git: Set Local User. Name and User. Email Different for Each Repo
I'm Currently Working on 2 Projects, Which Expect That I Configure My Local Username and Email with Different Data When I Push to Them. for That I'm Updaing My...
I'm currently working on 2 projects, which expect that I configure my local username and email with different data when I push to them.
for that I'm updaing my config all the time like:
git config --local user.email ""
Since they are different repositories, is there a way I could define an local email for each repository?
Maybe in the .gitconfig?
5 Answers
For just one repo, go into to the relevant repo DIR and:
git config user.name "Your Name Here"
git config user.email
For (global) default email (which is configured in your ~/.gitconfig):
git config --global user.name "Your Name Here"
git config --global user.email
You can check your git settings with:
git config user.name && git config user.email
If you are in a specific repo which you setup a new user/config for (different to global) then it should show that local config, otherwise it will show your global config.
You can confirm that by printing on the terminal:
- Global user:
git config --global user.name - Local user:
git config user.name
...or just edit the .git\config file and add these three lines somewhere:
[user]
name = YourName
email =
I generally tend to keep diff name/email for my company project and personal project(on github)
Run below command in the git repo where you need to specify the user/email
git config user.name <user-name>
git config user.email <user-email>
One trick that has been reliably working for me is to set both a global config credential.username option as well as a local one. They will ask for a password for authentication. This works even for Git Credential Manager say on a Mac. For more information, please see: . So you can cache like at least two different passwords for two different GitHub accounts.
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