Is it possible to have different Git configuration for different projects

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gitconfig is usually stored in the user home directory   I use a different identity to work on projects for Company A and something else for Company B  primarily the name   email   How can I have two different Git configurations so that my check-ins don t go with the name   email

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The  git config file in a particular clone of a repository is local to that clone  Any settings placed there will only affect actions for that particular project    By default  git config modifies  git config  not    gitconfig - only with --global does it modify the latter

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As of git version 2 13  git supports conditional configuration includes  In this example we clone Company A s repos in   company a directory  and Company B s repos in   company b   In your  gitconfig you can put something like this    includeIf  gitdir   company a      path    gitconfig-company a  includeIf  gitdir   company b      path    gitconfig-company b   Example contents of  gitconfig-company a   user  name   John Smith email   john smith companya net   Example contents of  gitconfig-company b   user  name   John Smith email   js companyb com

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There are 3 levels of git config  project  global and system   project  Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in  git config in the project s directory  global  Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in    gitconfig  system  System configs are available for all the users projects and stored in  etc gitconfig   Create a project specific config  you have to execute this under the project s directory    git config user name  quot John Doe quot    Create a global config    git config --global user name  quot John Doe quot   Create a system config    git config --system user name  quot John Doe quot    And as you may guess  project overrides global and global overrides system  Note  Project configs are local to just one particular copy clone of this particular repo  and need to be reapplied if the repo is recloned clean from the remote  It changes a local file that is not sent to the remote with a commit push

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You can customize a project s Git config by changing the repository specific configuration file  i e   path to repo  git config   BTW  git config writes to this file by default   cd  path to repo git config user name  John Doe     sets user name locally for the repo   I prefer to create separate profiles for different projects  e g  in    gitconfig d   and then include them in the repository s config file   cd  path to repo git config include path     gitconfig d myproject conf    This works well if you need to use the same set of options in multiple repos that belong to a single project  You can also set up shell aliases or a custom Git command to manipulate the profiles

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Thanks  crea1 A small variant  As it is written on https   git-scm com docs git-config  includes   If the pattern ends with       will be automatically added  For example  the pattern foo  becomes foo     In other words  it matches foo and everything inside  recursively   So I use in my case     gitconfig    user    as default  personal needs     email   myalias personal-domain fr     name   bcag2  includeIf  quot gitdir   workspace  quot     job needs  like workspace   so all included projects     path    gitconfig-job    all others section  core  alias  log     So If the project directory is in my   wokspace   default user settings is replace with    gitconfig-job    user  name   John Smith email   js company com

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You can also point the environment variable GIT CONFIG to a file that git config should use  With GIT CONFIG    gitconfig-A git config key value the specified file gets manipulated

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Another way is to use direnv and to separate config files per directory  For example      -- companyA      --  envrc      --  gitconfig  -- companyB      --  envrc      --  gitconfig  -- personal     --  envrc     --  gitconfig   Each  envrc should contain something like this   export GIT CONFIG   pwd   gitconfig   And  gitconfig is usual gitconfig with desired values

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I am doing this for my email in the following way   git config --global alias hobbyprofile  config user email  me example com     Then when I clone a new work project  I have only to run git hobbyprofile and it will be configured to use that email

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To be explicit  you can also use --local to use current repository config file   git config --local user name  John Doe

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Follow the Steps   Find  gitconfig from the system File Location For Windows    quot C  Users  USER NAME  gitconfig quot  File Location For Linux    quot  usr local git etc gitconfig quot   Open  gitconfig file and add below lines as per your condition   includeIf  quot gitdir D  ORG-A-PROJECTS  quot      user        name   John Smith       email   js organizationx com  includeIf  quot gitdir   organization b  quot      user        name   John Doe       email   jd organizationy com

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I m in the same boat  I wrote a little bash script to manage them   https   github com thejeffreystone setgit     bin bash    setgit     Script to manage multiple global gitconfigs      To save your current  gitconfig to  gitconfig-this just run    setgit -s this     To load  gitconfig-this to  gitconfig it run    setgit -f this            Author  Jeffrey Stone  lt thejeffreystone gmail com gt   usage      echo    basename  0   -h   -f name      echo      echo  where     echo   -h  Show Help Text    echo   -f  Load the  gitconfig file based on option passed    echo      exit 1      if      -lt 1   then   usage   exit fi  while getopts   hf   option  do   case   option  in       h  usage          exit                   f  echo  Loading  gitconfig from  gitconfig- OPTARG           cat    gitconfig- OPTARG  gt     gitconfig                      printf  illegal option    s  n    OPTARG   gt  amp 2          echo   usage   gt  amp 2          exit 1                 esac done

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I had an error when trying to git stash my local changes  The error from git said  Please tell me who you are  and then told me to  Run git config --global user email  you example com and git config --global user name  Your name  to set your account s default identity   However  you must Omit --global to set the identity only in your current repository

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